Previously --no-rebase (which still works for backwards compatbility).
Now we can update the default warning, and the git-pull(1) man page to
use --merge instead of the non-intuitive --no-rebase.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-pull.txt | 9 ++++++---
builtin/pull.c | 4 +++-
t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index ad33d2472c..c220da143a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ However, a non-fast-foward case looks very different.
------------
By default `git pull` will warn about these situations, however, most likely
-you would want to force a merge, which you can do with `git pull --no-rebase`.
+you would want to force a merge, which you can do with `git pull --merge`.
Then "`git pull`" will fetch and replay the changes from the remote
`master` branch since it diverged from the local `master` (i.e., `E`)
@@ -148,8 +148,11 @@ It rewrites history, which does not bode well when you
published that history already. Do *not* use this option
unless you have read linkgit:git-rebase[1] carefully.
---no-rebase::
- Override earlier --rebase.
+-m::
+--merge::
+ Force a merge.
++
+Previously this was --no-rebase, but that usage has been deprecated.
Options related to fetching
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
index b200f7544c..6ea95c9fc9 100644
--- a/builtin/pull.c
+++ b/builtin/pull.c
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ static struct option pull_options[] = {
"(false|true|merges|preserve|interactive)",
N_("incorporate changes by rebasing rather than merging"),
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, parse_opt_rebase),
+ OPT_SET_INT('m', "merge", &opt_rebase,
+ N_("incorporate changes by merging"), 0),
OPT_PASSTHRU('n', NULL, &opt_diffstat, NULL,
N_("do not show a diffstat at the end of the merge"),
PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG),
@@ -1024,7 +1026,7 @@ int cmd_pull(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
"\n"
"You can replace \"git config\" with \"git config --global\" to set a default\n"
"preference for all repositories.\n"
- "If unsure, run \"git pull --no-rebase\".\n"
+ "If unsure, run \"git pull --merge\".\n"
"Read \"git pull --help\" for more information."
));
}
diff --git a/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh b/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
index 6b4adab8b1..1de64e6cc5 100755
--- a/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
+++ b/t/t7601-merge-pull-config.sh
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ test_expect_success 'pull.rebase not set and --rebase given' '
test_i18ngrep ! "Pulling without specifying how to reconcile" err
'
-test_expect_success 'pull.rebase not set and --no-rebase given' '
+test_expect_success 'pull.rebase not set and --merge given' '
git reset --hard c2 &&
- git pull --no-rebase . c1 2>err &&
+ git pull --merge . c1 2>err &&
test_i18ngrep ! "Pulling without specifying how to reconcile" err
'
--
2.29.2
