Git 1.7 and git push?

[Bruno Wolff III]

I saw that there is a change in the way git push works in 1.7.
Currently I only do simple things and a typical workflow is:
git pull
Make a few changes
git commit -a
git push

This normally does a fast forward update and avoids a merge.
Is there another way I should be doing this? Does the answer change for 1.7?