From: martinvz <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:58:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Difference between pull --rebase and fetch+rebase
Message-ID: <27059574.post@talk.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <27059158.post@talk.nabble.com>


Forgot to say that I am using version 1.6.5.1.1367.gcd48 (Cygwin). I should
also say that I can see no particular reason why exactly two extra commits
were picked.


martinvz wrote:
> 
> I have a branch configured to track a remote branch by rebasing. I
> excepted that "git pull" would therefore be equivalent to fetching from
> the remote repository followed by rebasing the remote branch, but it
> isn't. When doing "git rebase <remote>/<branch>", it applies only the
> commits after the merge base. When doing "git pull", it tries to apply two
> more commits (the two commits preceding the merge base). Why is this?
> 
> I get the same result even if I do "git pull --rebase <remote> <branch>",
> it doesn't seem to have anything to do with incorrect configuration of the
> branch.
> 

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