Re: Unhelpful "branch.master.remote = <nickname>" advice?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2009, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvdhgon0a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1257945756.26362.79.camel@heerbeest>

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list@xs4all.nl> writes:

> *) I've been wondering why GIT lacks a "update", ie
>    pull-without-merge command.  You almost never want
>    to git pull /without/ -r?

"You almost never want to git pull w/o --rebase" is incorrect, and you cannot draw any conclusion from that statement.

I never want to run "git pull --rebase" myself, not in this project, nor at work. On the other hand, I always run "git pull --rebase" while working on another OSS project that I am only following (I'm holding onto a few private patches until they get applied).

So even the same person never uses --rebase or always uses --rebase, depending on how he interacts with the repository on the other side,