From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:13:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make rebase smarter
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710270013030.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5p9wpwd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > It is a common workflow to run "git fetch; git rebase origin/<foo>" 
> > Where foo is the remote tracking branch.  git-rebase should default to 
> > using the remote tracking branch if no other ref is given.
> 
> This would be a reasonable choice between refusing outright and
> picking one possible action.

Another sensible choice would be "git rebase FETCH_HEAD", at least just 
after a "git fetch <nick> <branch>"...

Ciao,
Dscho