Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-merge: implement --ff-only-merge option.

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:27:30 -0700

Sergey Organov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Why would it be useful to limit the history to a shape where all
>> merges are the ones that could have been fast-forwarded?
>
> Except by true merge, how else can I express with git that 'n'
> consequitive commits constitute single logical change (being originally
> some topic branch)?

You are justifying --no-ff, aren't you?

> Moreover, as topic branches are usually rebased before merge anyway,
> why shouldn't I have simple capability to enforce it?

Because rebasing immediately before is considered a bad manner,
i.e. encouraging a wrong workflow?