Re: [PATCH v2] Teach 'git pull' about --rebase

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:
> > I wonder if this shouldn't be branch.<name>.pulltype or something like
> > that, so we can represent more than just "rebase or not." Values could
> > be "rebase", "merge" (the default) and maybe even "manual" to specify
> > that git-pull should neither merge nor rebase a particular branch even
> > if it matches a wildcard refspec.
>
> I am not convinced that this is a good thing... We already have
> branch.<name>.mergeOptions for proper merges, and I want to make clear
> that this is about rebase, and not about merge.