Subject: How to request a fast-forward pull

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:40:33 -0700

Hi gitsters,

Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> When you have a moment, would you please migrate this
> across to your main linux-stable repository?
>
> Both a branch and signed tag are present and pointing at
> the same commit, but "git request-pull" does favour output
> of the tag over the branch name.
>
> But merging the tag will want to create a merge commit.
>
> So, to avoid a merge commit in your repo, you can fetch
> (fast fwd) into your (local) branch from my branch at:
>
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-stable.git linux-2.6.34.y
>
> and then fetch the signed tag listed below after that.

Can this be made easier?  I could imagine request-pull learning
--ff-only that generates a message like

	Greg,

	Please pull --ff-only

	 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-stable.git linux-2.6.34.y

	to get the following changes [...]

which could work ok if the recipient notices the --ff-only, but I
wonder if there is a simpler way.

Thanks for the food for thought,
Jonathan