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noselasd on April 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git pull --rebase until it hurts

But even typing git pull isn't canonical, bar what the defaults are. git pull pretty much does a git fetch && git merge for you.

reledi on April 30, 2013 [–]

Yes but that's the default behaviour of git pull so it's expected to fetch and merge when you pull. Changing the default behaviour can lead to confusion or mistakes.

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