RE: [PATCH v3 0/8] Handle pull option precedence

> Based on a recent list of rules for flag/option precedence for git-pull[1]
> from Junio (particularly focusing on rebase vs. merge vs. fast-forward),
> here's an attempt to implement and document it. Given multiple recent
> surprises from users about some of these behaviors[2][3] and a coworker just
> yesterday expressing some puzzlement with git-pull and rebase vs. merge, it
> seems like a good time to address some of these issues.
> 
> Since the handling of conflicting options was holding up two of Alex's
> patches[4][5], and his patches fix some of the tests, I also include those
> two patches in my series, with a few small changes to the first (so I've
> kept him as author) and more substantial changes to the second (so I've
> given him an Initial-patch-by attribution).
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 
>  * Remove some unnecessary changes in patch 4, pointed out by Junio.