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Comment by kazinator | Hacker News Reader

I've not used "git pull" since 2010. I always "git fetch" remote objects, and rebase with an explicit "git rebase".

Isn't that what "git pull --rebase" does?

I've had it enabled by default for years and years. It's always what I want.

    [pull]
      rebase = true

I did that for several months in 2010. It's too error prone; you will forget to have that configured somewhere and get a merge by mistake.

So then I trained myself on "pull --rebase". I soon realized, I don't want to be combining fetch and rebase. The best way was to just scrub the pull command from the vocabulary.

It's fine nowadays but there was a time when "git pull --rebase" worked slightly differently to "git fetch" and "git rebase". I'd get conflicts with the former that I didn't get with the latter.

I don't rebase immediately after a git fetch. I look at what is new first. I might not rebase over all of it. E.g. the first three commits may have something I need to pick up, but then after that there may be something I don't want to integrate with yet.

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