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Re: [PATCH] pull: Allow pull to preserve merges when rebasing.

From
Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2013, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID
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> 1. i'm not sure why you are testing $3 == preserve. it looks like a
> typo
Yes, good catch. I've added a test that fails, and will fix that.
> 2. clearer than a string of yoda conditions:
> 
> case $2 in
> true|false|preserve)
Makes sense, will change.
> 1. in the error message you say that rebase should be a trystate of
> true, false, or preserve. why then do you allow $rebase == '' ?

Because it may be unset, like if the user ran "git pull . copy" and the pull.rebase setting was not set.

> 2. clearer than a string of yoda conditions:
Will change again.

I'll wait to see if I get any more feedback and then will send out another version.

Thanks!
- Stephen
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