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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Git List Mailing <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pull: introduce --merge option
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:11:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeebregns.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whf-9kNV3y5G-VVA2K5EZCnvv94paAEj6p=i2R4RM2emQ@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:06:11 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 6:47 AM Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Users need to specify if they want to either --merge or --rebase, but
>> unfortunately the former is missing.
>
> Ack. I think it's just historical, because long long ago it used to be
> that 'git pull' always merged unless told otherwise with --rebase.

The "--no-rebase" option, which is documented as a synonym for
"--rebase=false", has been there, but the implementation is buggy in
some corner cases, which has been worked on recently in a separate
thread.  I do not think it is too bad to add "--merge" as yet
another synonym for "--rebase=false".


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-21 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 13:46 [PATCH v2] pull: introduce --merge option Felipe Contreras
2021-07-21 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 17:11   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-07-26  4:06     ` Alex Henrie
2021-07-27  2:56       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-27  8:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-27 15:52         ` Alex Henrie
2021-07-27 16:48           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-28  7:44             ` Matthias Baumgarten
2021-07-28 17:18               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-28 18:18                 ` Matthias Baumgarten
2021-07-28 19:25                 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-27  6:31     ` Felipe Contreras

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