Re: [PATCH 0/3] Reject non-ff pulls by default
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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- Sep 8, 2013, 23:11 UTC
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: > >> pull.<someoption> = rebase | merge [| always-fail] >> >> makes that choice in a clear way, I think.
The core issue is that users rarely want to merge locally: that's the maintainer's job. Users simply want to rebase, and develop on different branches that they will rebase onto origin. I like Felipe's idea for using a pull.mode.