Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

> Suppose you are about to finish something you have been cooking (say a
> series of five logical commits), you've made three of these commits
> already, and what you have in your work tree and the index is to be split
> into the last two commits.  Somehow you learn that $x above has a updated
> version.
>
> Yes, running "git stash && git pull --rebase && git stash pop" would be
> better than running "git pull --rebase" alone from that state.  But that
> would mean your history would have your first 3 commits (of 5 commit
> series), somebody else's totally unrelated commits, and then you will work
> on finishing the remaining 2 commits on top of it.