On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sergei Organov wrote: > >> Is there any scenario at all where pull --rebase=true wins over >> preserve? > > Basically always in my book. ;-) > > When people turn on 'pull --rebase', they are asking for a clean, > simplified history where their changes are small discrete patches in a > clump on top of upstream. +1. Words to develop by. There are exceptions. E.g., when you pull commits from multiple [forked] upstreams, then you can't keep your local commits on top. That exception aside, keeping all local commits "on top" by always rebasing them onto the upstream is extremely useful: a) in simplifying conflict resolution, b) making it easy to identify as-yet-unintegrated local commits, c) making it easy to contribute local commits. Nico -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html