Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-branch to set up automatic rebasing

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2008, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6attey8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080619154350.GA21625@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:

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> On 2008.06.19 15:00:19 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Pieter de Bie wrote:
>> 
>> > This functionality was actually introduced in
>> >  0a02186f924aee1bd69f18ed01f645aa332ce0d1, but can only be activated by the
>> > configuration flag. Now we can also setup auto rebasing using the --rebase
>> > flag in git-branch or git-checkout, similar to how --track works.
>> 
>> How about "--rebasing"?  I would scratch my head a bit how a new branch 
>> and a rebase would go together.
>
> Hm, --rebasing sounds weird to me as well. Maybe --track=merge and
> --track=rebase, with --track being equal to --track=merge?

That looks like the best wording so far, although I suspect that the true reason why all of the above sounds confusing may be because the concept itself is not clear.