diff --git a/project.py b/project.py
index d0bf4651..376af7a9 100644
--- a/project.py
+++ b/project.py
@@ -2584,7 +2584,7 @@ class Project(object):
       raise GitError('%s rebase %s ' % (self.name, upstream))
 
   def _FastForward(self, head, ffonly=False):
-    cmd = ['merge', head]
+    cmd = ['merge', '--no-stat', head]
     if ffonly:
       cmd.append("--ff-only")
     if GitCommand(self, cmd).Wait() != 0: