Re: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On 8/23/08, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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>
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
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>> you got nice and detailed answers,  for example you can track a
>> rebased tree in your working directory using git pull --rebase.
>> What's wrong with that?
>
> No, you really really cannot do that.
>
> If the _tree_ you are tracking is itself rebasing (not just your own
> tree), then you cannot and absolutely SHOULD NOT use rebase (not directly,
> and not with "git pull --rebase".
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> Why?
>
> Let's look at what happens. Let's say that your history looks like
>
> 	... -> A -> B -> C -> a -> b -> c
>
> where the upper-case letters are from the tree you track, and the
> lower-case letters are the commits you added yourself.
>
[skipping a nice explanation, thanks]

you are right. But i thougth Andi was looking for simply having a
working tree in sync with a remote tree that is often rebased. That's
what his script is doing.
if the user is not adding any commit, isn't git pull --rebase the same
of git fetch (or git remote update) +git checkout ?

ciao,
-- 
Paolo
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