From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:47:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Amending merge commits?
Message-ID: <CAK3OfOjr6ej5VdGU=bLmtag9cca1=ogLxVakCFTMG7b-A2uBiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sergei Organov wrote:
>
>> Is there any scenario at all where pull --rebase=true wins over
>> preserve?
>
> Basically always in my book. ;-)
>
> When people turn on 'pull --rebase', they are asking for a clean,
> simplified history where their changes are small discrete patches in a
> clump on top of upstream.

+1.  Words to develop by.

There are exceptions.  E.g., when you pull commits from multiple
[forked] upstreams, then you can't keep your local commits on top.

That exception aside, keeping all local commits "on top" by always
rebasing them onto the upstream is extremely useful: a) in simplifying
conflict resolution, b) making it easy to identify as-yet-unintegrated
local commits, c) making it easy to contribute local commits.

Nico
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