# Fail git pull --rebase when local merges present? (was: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.11.1) 1 messages from 2017-02-03 to 2017-02-03. Participants: Stephen Bash. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45035 ## Stephen Bash, 2017-02-03 16:01 Subject: Fail git pull --rebase when local merges present? (was: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.11.1) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAAyCa8k4zfv7thRsX%2B5M8TGQ%2B2U3nfj_tTN_pZPe8jQb6mPJrQ%40mail.gmail.com ``` On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since > we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without > invoking "git rebase", but it didn't. As someone who has to mentor new developers to Git at my $dayjob, this is really nice! Thanks! Slightly related (in that it's a pitfall of *always* using pull --rebase), does anyone know if there is a way to make git pull --rebase fail if there's a local merge? For our workflow I'd like to tell new people to just default to pull --rebase, but having to add (and explain) the "don't rebase a merge" caveat tends to lose them... (yes we mix merge and rebase; it works for us... most of the time) Thanks, Stephen ```