From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:15:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Unexpected/unexplained difference between git pull --rebase and git rebase
Message-ID: <xmqq61ahad18.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150303214653.GQ890@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

> git-rebase assumes that if you give an explicit upstream then you want
> precisely what you asked for.  From git-rebase(1):
>
> 	If either <upstream> or --root is given on the command line,
> 	then the default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is
> 	`--fork-point`.

Correct.

You ask it to rebase the history without guessing by being explicit;
the command guesses when you are not explicit and being lazy ;-).