Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This seems like a pretty niche feature to want to introduce a new option > for. I would imagine the alternative is something like: > > ff="--no-ff" > if test 1 -eq $(git rev-list @{u}..) > then > ff="--ff" > fi > > [on upstream @{u}] > git merge "$ff" "$branch" > > I don't have a great sense of how many users might want or benefit from > something like this. My sense is that there aren't many, but I could > very easily be wrong here. Another more fundamental objection is "Why do we special case only a singleton commit?" Why isn't a trivial two-patch series also OK to fast-forward? Three? There is no inherent reason to draw a line on one commit topic---given that a single commit could be a large and involved one that could have been a multi commmit series. And you cannot decide if the "topic" is large enough to deserve a binding merge commit even if it is a single commit topic, or if is small enough and you want to allow fast-forward, without looking at it first. So from that point of view, too, I do not think this new option is a good idea. Let's not add an option to encourage a bad discipline. Thanks.