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to their corresponding remote tracking branches, and the tips of
these tracking branches are merged.
+merge.ff::
+ By default, git does not create an extra merge commit when merging
+ a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the
+ tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded. When set to `false`,
+ this variable tells git to create an extra merge commit in such
+ a case (equivalent to giving the `--no-ff` option from the command
+ line). When set to `only`, only such fast-forward merges are
+ allowed (equivalent to giving the `--ff-only` option from the
+ command line).
+
merge.log::
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the