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Merging code
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-Avoid fast-forwards, they make a very messy history. Put this in your
-gitconfig::
+We avoid merge commits into master, they make a very messy history. Put this
+in your gitconfig to only allow the merges that can be resolved as a
+fast-forward::
[merge]
ff = only