Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git pull' the '--rebase' option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 26, 2007, 11:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20071026114518.GB2693@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071026114331.GA2693@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:43:32AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> Reasonable, although perhaps it should mention what I suspect might be a
> common workflow for this feature: CVS emulation. I.e., there is a
> central repo, which is the only thing considered "published". Developers
> make commits in their local repo, and then rebase their changes onto the
> HEAD before pushing. The only difference from CVS is that you don't
> actually get to commit in CVS, you have to do the rebase with your
> working tree. :)

Actually, I think I've just restated Junio's comment somewhat, so the change you made in response to him is an improvement. Sorry for the noise.

-Peff