> pull = pull --ff-only From "git --help config": "To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored." >

> pull = pull --ff-only From "git --help config": "To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing git commands are ignored." > “Use git checkout.” This is just a jab at how "checkout" does too many different things. > “I have a historical record of a merge commit with two parents. How can I find out which branch each parent was originally made on?” Git doesn't let you do this. > “Surely some of these could be made more consistent, so as to be easier to remember in the heat of coding?” Git commands can be inconsistent. > “git -h branch“. This command tells you nothing about "branch" (throws error), whereas "git --help branch" launches the browser at git-branch's manpage. This goes against what people usually expect (that "-h" is just shorthand for "--help".