Re: [BUG] git pull --rebase ignores rebase.autostash config when fast-forwarding

[Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>]

On 03/01/2022 18:08, Tilman Vogel wrote:
> Hi git-people,
>
> I ran into strange behavior when having rebase.autostash enabled and
> doing a git pull --rebase:
>
>> git config rebase.autostash true
>> git pull --rebase
> Updating cd9ff8a..f3c9840
> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by
> merge:
>         content
> Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
> Aborting
>
> Confusingly, this fixes the issue:
>
>> git config merge.autostash true
>> git pull --rebase
> Updating cd9ff8a..f3c9840
> Created autostash: c615fda
> Fast-forward
>  content | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> Applied autostash.
>
> Leaving me wonder why merge config options fix rebase behavior.
>
> So, in order to make it easier to check the problem, I added some
> test-cases to the git test-suite. Please see the attached patch.
>
> Or here:
> https://github.com/tvogel/git/commit/bc941f9357518a34cfa11788dfb8e7fa7f711705
>
> I did not try to find the root-cause as I am not experienced with the
> code-base but if there are questions, let me know.

Which version are you running?

There was a problem in 2.33.1 as per thread discussion:
 https://lore.kernel.org/git/YYFEE%2F2g3SiM04zx@hades.panopticon/
 (I'd searched the logs for ".autostash true")

Does that provide any guidance?
--
Philip