Pull '--ff-only' checkbox?

[Joshua Malcolm]

There's no radio button or checkbox for ff-only. How do I go about, requesting this?
I see (pull) requests droped for this sortof thing, is project development slowing?
Tortoise git seems to have more options. but i don't think working out of a right click menu is good workflow vs git extensions we you can do everything from the DAG view.

[Joshua Malcolm]

Anyone?
Would love someones opinion to if stuff like this makes it into upstream these days?

[Dave Brotherstone]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Joshua Malcolm <wot...@gmail.com> wrote:

There's no radio button or checkbox for ff-only.  How do I go about, requesting this?

Whilst I can't speak for the core developers, this seems like a reasonable switch, and easily added to the merge dialog as a third option.  I might have a crack at it if I get ten minutes over the weekend.

 

I see (pull) requests droped for this sortof thing, is project development slowing?

Pull requests can get dropped for any number of reasons, code quality, not in line with the rest of the design of the application etc.  There's also many, many pull requests that do get merged.  There's plenty of activity on github, and plenty of commits going in.  There's 12 open pull requests, and roughly 925 closed ones. Of the 12, 4 are within the last week or so.  I don't get the impression development is slowing.

 

I'll drop you a mail if you like if I manage to get a pull request in with this feature.

Cheers,

Dave.

[Joshua Malcolm]

You legend!
This will make it easy to convince people to use Git Extensions over tortoise git (which does have a lot of these options)
I like the strategy where no one commits to master except to merge a feature branch or pull --ff-only.  Not having to teach people to jump to commandline just for that step will make life easier with noobs.
If you do this in Tortoise git you never see the DAG and I just think people don't get whats going on as intuitively.

Thanks very much!