Can you explain why you did a fast forward only merge? I almost always do my merges/pulls as --no-ff in order to preserve history, especially when it comes to branches. At least that's how I understood things to work.<div><br></div><div>And yes, git is pretty freaking awesome. Joel Splosky said it was arguably the greatest advance in software development in the past 10 years. I didn't believe him at first, but it didn't take long to see his point.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br><br>On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:29:08 AM UTC-5, jay.hannah wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">The fact that this kind of shit Just Works is a freaking miracle. 
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<br>git merge, I love you.
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<br>➜  Jay-Hannahs-iMac:Template2 git:(master) git remote -v
<br>origin        git@github.com:j<wbr>hannah/Template2.git (fetch)
<br>origin        git@github.com:j<wbr>hannah/Template2.git (push)
<br>➜  Jay-Hannahs-iMac:Template2 git:(master) git remote add abw git@github.com:abw/Template2.<wbr>git
<br>➜  Jay-Hannahs-iMac:Template2 git:(master) git fetch abw
<br>remote: Counting objects: 106, done.
<br>remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39/39), done.
<br>remote: Total 64 (delta 49), reused 39 (delta 25)
<br>Unpacking objects: 100% (64/64), done.
<br>From github.com:abw/Template2
<br> * [new branch]      master     -> abw/master
<br>➜  Jay-Hannahs-iMac:Template2 git:(master) git merge --ff-only abw/master
<br>Updating 4aceb01..0ab6797
<br>Fast-forward
<br> Changes                            | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++------
<br> HACKING                            |  8 ++++----
<br> INSTALL                            | 22 +++++++++++-----------
<br> README                             | 11 +++++++----
<br> lib/Template.pm                    |  8 ++++----
<br> lib/Template/Base.pm               |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/Config.pm             |  9 +++++----
<br> lib/Template/Constants.pm          |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/Context.pm            |  6 +++---
<br> lib/Template/Directive.pm          |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Document.pm           |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/FAQ.pod               |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Filters.pm            |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Iterator.pm           |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Manual.pod            |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Manual/Config.<wbr>pod     |  8 ++++----
<br> lib/Template/Manual/Credits.<wbr>pod    | 22 ++++++++++++----------
<br> lib/Template/Manual/<wbr>Directives.pod | 10 +++++-----
<br> lib/Template/Manual/<wbr>Internals.pod  | 77 ++++++++++++------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---------------
<br> lib/Template/Manual/Plugins.<wbr>pod    |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/Manual/Views.pod      |  6 +++---
<br> lib/Template/Parser.pm             |  8 ++++----
<br> lib/Template/Plugin.pm             |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Plugin/Assert.pm      |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Plugin/Filter.pm      |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Plugin/HTML.pm        |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Plugin/Image.pm       |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/Plugin/String.pm      |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/Plugin/Table.pm       |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/Provider.pm           |  4 ++--
<br> lib/Template/Stash.pm              |  6 +++---
<br> lib/Template/Tutorial/<wbr>Datafile.pod |  6 +++---
<br> lib/Template/Tutorial/Web.pod      |  2 +-
<br> lib/Template/VMethods.pm           | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
<br> lib/Template/View.pm               |  6 +++---
<br> 35 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)
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