Re: [PATCH] man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase

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

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>
>> Are you sure? This adds '-r', not '--r', i.e., the single-letter option
>> 'r', to the documentation, which is not something we want to hide, usually.
>
> I actually think "--rebase" squatting on short-and-sweet "-r" was an
> accident, and we are saved by not endorsing "pull -r" by documenting
> it.  We can still use "-r" for "--recurse-submodules" if that proves
> to give more value than "--rebase" to our users.
>
> So I dunno.  I personally do not think either deserves a short-and-sweet
> single letter option.

I guess the above needs a bit of clarification.

The reason I do not think "pull -r" gives much value to the users to
trigger "pull --rebase" is because the use of "pull --rebase" is
very project specific.  If you are working on a project that forbids
merges, you would _always_ want to run "pull --rebase", which means
you would likely have it configured and would not be typing from the
command line.