Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > It is a common workflow to run "git fetch; git rebase origin/<foo>" >> > Where foo is the remote tracking branch. git-rebase should default to >> > using the remote tracking branch if no other ref is given. >> >> This would be a reasonable choice between refusing outright and >> picking one possible action. > > Another sensible choice would be "git rebase FETCH_HEAD", at least just > after a "git fetch <nick> <branch>"... We can get the best of both worlds by noticing a line in FETCH_HEAD without not-for-merge marker and use that as the 'onto' commit for the rebase. - 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