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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Teach 'git pull' about --rebase
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:40:48 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711282039430.27959@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27E5EF3C-19EF-441C-BB12-0F5B29BEAEDB@midwinter.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > As a convenience, you can set the default behavior for a branch by 
> > defining the config variable branch.<name>.rebase, which is 
> > interpreted as a bool.  This setting can be overridden on the command 
> > line by --rebase and --no-rebase.
> 
> I wonder if this shouldn't be branch.<name>.pulltype or something like 
> that, so we can represent more than just "rebase or not." Values could 
> be "rebase", "merge" (the default) and maybe even "manual" to specify 
> that git-pull should neither merge nor rebase a particular branch even 
> if it matches a wildcard refspec.

I am not convinced that this is a good thing... We already have 
branch.<name>.mergeOptions for proper merges, and I want to make clear 
that this is about rebase, and not about merge.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25 22:54 [PATCH] Teach 'git pull' the '--rebase' option Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-25 23:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 23:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-25 23:49       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-25 23:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-26  9:52       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28  0:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-28 13:11           ` [PATCH v2] Teach 'git pull' about --rebase Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 13:15             ` Jonathan del Strother
2007-11-28 14:02               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 13:19             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-28 20:35             ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-28 20:40               ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-11-28 21:10                 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-11-28 21:55                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-28 21:58                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 22:06                       ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-28 22:33                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-28 22:47                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-28 23:12                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 23:32                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-28 23:56                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-29  0:16                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-29  8:36                               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-29  3:23                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-28 21:59                     ` Jon Loeliger
2007-11-28 22:02                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-01 20:37                     ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-12-03 13:10                       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-26 11:43     ` [PATCH] Teach 'git pull' the '--rebase' option Jeff King
2007-10-26 11:45       ` Jeff King

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