From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:14:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-branch to set up automatic rebasing Message-ID: <7vr6attey8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080619154350.GA21625@atjola.homenet> Björn Steinbrink writes: > 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.