Re: RFC: git pull or git rebase?

> Quoting Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:
> Subject: Re: RFC: git pull or git rebase?
> 
> On 7/23/07, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> >However, I wonder whether this happens to others, too.
> >Would it make sense to add a branch attribute that says
> >"do not pull this branch" or "do not rebase this branch"?
> >Maybe even make git do the right thing automatically,
> >so that git would look at this attribute and perform
> >pull or rebase as appropriate?
> 
> If you have a recent enough git, it will refuse to pull into
> a branch for which there is no configured remote branch.
> Exactly for a reason like yours.