From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:33:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git fetch+rebase on a local tracking branch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801171129430.31161@torch.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <6C0A045B-658F-4ECE-93DB-A61F77AAA1F8@sb.org>

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> When I'm working on a local tracking branch, is there an easier way to do 
> `git fetch && git rebase origin/branch`? I could imagine either a config 
> value like branch.master.rebase = remotes/origin/master (although it would be 
> nice to avoid duplicating the remote name, since we already have 
> branch.master.remote), or perhaps a --rebase command to git pull such that it 
> simply performs a rebase instead of a merge.
>
> Is there some reason there isn't already a solution like this, or am I simply 
> missing something?

It exists in master.

commit cd67e4d46b122b161f2ad7d943e4ae7aa8df6cf5
Author: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date:   Wed Nov 28 13:11:07 2007 +0000

     Teach 'git pull' about --rebase

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-brandon