On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 04:08:51PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > trying "git pull --no-commit . foo" for the first time, I was confused > that --no-commit was a no-op when the pull resulted in a fast-forward. > I.e. HEAD advanced the whole chain of commits to foo. I expected it to > apply the diff of HEAD..foo but not commit them. --no-commit to me seems to mean don't commit a merge commit. Maybe what you want is something like: git-diff HEAD foo | git-apply -- gram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html