>>> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> schrieb am 19.02.2019 um 20:32 in Nachricht <xmqqk1hv1sms....@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>: > Elijah Newren <new...@gmail.com> writes: > >> +With ‑‑no‑commit perform the merge and stop just before creating >> +a merge commit, to give the user a chance to inspect and further >> +tweak the merge result before committing. >> ++ >> +Note that fast‑forward updates do not need to create a merge >> +commit and therefore there is no way to stop those merges with >> +‑‑no‑commit. Thus, if you want to ensure your branch is not >> +changed or updated by the merge command, use ‑‑no‑ff with >> +‑‑no‑commit. > > While the above is an improvement (so I'll queue it on 'pu' not to > lose sight of it), I find the use of "do not need to" above somewhat > misleading. It solicits a reaction "ok, we know it does not need > to, but it could prepare to create one to allow us to further muck > with it, no?". > > IOW, a fast‑forward by definition does not create a merge by itself, > so there is nowhere to stop during a creation of a merge. So at > least: > > s/do not need to/do not/
Agree. > > It also may be a good idea to consider detecting this case and be a > bit more helpful, perhaps with end‑user experience looking like... > > $ git checkout master^0 > $ git merge ‑‑no‑commit next > Updating 0d0ac3826a..ee538a81fe > Fast‑forward > ...diffstat follows here... > hint: merge completed without creating a commit. > hint: if you wanted to prepare for a manually tweaked merge, > hint: do "git reset ‑‑keep ORIG_HEAD" followed by > hint: "git merge ‑‑no‑ff ‑‑no‑commit next". > > or even > > $ git checkout master^0 > $ git merge ‑‑no‑commit next > warning: defaulting to ‑‑no‑ff, given a ‑‑no‑commit request > Automatic merge went well; stopped before committing as requested > hint: if you'd rather have a fast‑forward without creating a commit, > hint: do "git reset ‑‑keep next" now. > > I do not have a strong preference among three (the third option > being not doing anything), but if pressed, I'd say that the last one > might be the most user‑friendly, even though it feels a bit too > magical and trying to be smarter than its own good. > > In any case, the hint for the "recovery" procedure needs to be > carefully written. Actually I think if the user specified "--no-commit" and the merge turns out to be fast-forward, the user could be asked whether to continue or not (instead of undoinf afterwards); maybe when entering a response is not possible (batch processing) the merge should be aborted due to "--no-commit" not being possible (well actually there would never be a commit, even without that option). The problem is that without prior inspection of the tree you cannot know whether the merge will be fast-forward or not: fast-forward being an optimization (taht is enabled by default) makes life more complicated here. Regards, Ulrich Windl
