Re: [PATCH] Adding rebase merge strategy

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Tom Clarke" <tom@u2i.com> writes:

> So it's perhaps the question is whether rebasing should be treated as
> a kind of merging, or as an alternative to merging when pulling.
> Incidentally, are there any other cases other than pulling where using
> rebase as an alternative merge strategy is useful?

Very well put; I like concise summary of the point in a
discussion thread like this.

And the question in your last sentence is not merely incidental,
but I think is the most crucial one to decide which way we
should proceed.

I do not offhand think of a place other than "git pull" that
would make sense to sometimes be able to rebase when you
normally use merge, so I am inclined to say it would be easier
to teach that "'git pull' is usually a 'git fetch' followed by
'git merge', but in certain workflow it is handier to 'git
fetch' and then 'git rebase', and here are the ways to get the
rebasing behaviour...".