From: Miklos Vajna Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:38:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase Message-ID: <20120817053826.GB22313@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <7vzk5uzgqa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:09:33PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The reason I do not think "pull -r" gives much value to the users to > trigger "pull --rebase" is because the use of "pull --rebase" is > very project specific. If you are working on a project that forbids > merges, you would _always_ want to run "pull --rebase", which means > you would likely have it configured and would not be typing from the > command line. I agree that it's a bit strange, but based on a quick search, it seems multiple projects already advertise git pull -r (i.e. not --rebase and not a configuration option): http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/contributor/pulling-and-rebasing http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Git_For_LibreOffice_Developers http://www.wiremod.com/forum/wiremod-general-chat/29517-git-introduction-incomplete-unformatted.html So it seems making -r refer to --recurse-submodules would already cause quite some pain to users.