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Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 17:15:21 +0200
From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] On banning merge commits
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On Sun, 8 May 2016 05:53:42 -0700
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:

> It is these
> larger commit branches that are much more difficult to "git pull
> --rebase && git push --signed" successfully without some other pushes
> in between causing a rejected non-fast forward push.

You mean doing

until <git push>; do <git pull>; done

is not already as optimal as you could get?


     jer