Commit f797d84c authored by Sean McGivern's avatar Sean McGivern

Merge branch 'ff-rebase-docs' into 'master'

ff-rebase-docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!3137
parents 629b5303 9130e37c
......@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ When the fast-forward merge ([`--ff-only`][ffonly]) setting is enabled, no merge
commits will be created and all merges are fast-forwarded, which means that
merging is only allowed if the branch could be fast-forwarded.
When a fast-forward merge is not possible, the user must rebase the branch manually.
When a fast-forward merge is not possible, the user is given the option to rebase.
## Use cases
......@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ merge commits. In such cases, the fast-forward merge is the perfect candidate.
Now, when you visit the merge request page, you will be able to accept it
**only if a fast-forward merge is possible**.
![Fast forward merge request](img/ff_merge_mr.png)
![Fast forward merge request](img/ff_merge_rebase.png)
If the target branch is ahead of the source branch, you need to rebase the
source branch locally before you will be able to do a fast-forward merge.
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