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by rectang 1904 days ago
A pull is just a fetch followed by a merge. So to solve this problem, just fetch instead of pull!

Then do `git merge --ff-only` and if it doesn't work, do the rebase or whatever else to resolve the conflict.

I did this long before I set `merge.ff=no`. I hate it when pull creates crappy graphs — it's something I try to help all my colleagues to avoid. I often wish that `git pull` didn't exist.
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masklinn 1904 days ago
> A pull is just a fetch followed by a merge. So to solve this problem, just fetch instead of pull!

Of course, that’s what I do. But “git pull” is still a danger, and configuring merge.ff=only protects against that danger.

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rectang 1904 days ago
Why is `git pull` a "danger" if you always use `git fetch`? The configuration setting for merge.ff only affects the local machine. It doesn't generally impact other developers.

(Unless you're doing something like setting the system gitconfig on a shared dev box, and setting merge.ff to anything other than the default would be really heavy handed in such an envronment.)

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