Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I sympathize with what you are trying to do but I do not think this is > correct. You will *never* rebase remote on top of your changes; rather > you will replay your changes on top of what the updated remote has. > > It is more like "if you start git pull while on branch rebaser, it will > rebased on top of this branch from the remote". > I'm happy to use more accurate phrasing -- I was just going for a minimal change. How about the following, consistent for both cases: 'git pull' merges branch master with remote branch master 'git pull' rebases branch rebaser on top of remote branch side ? I like the above because the keywords & branch names are in consistent locations, making it easier to parse the output. Marc -- 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