Re: So git pull is shorthand for what exactly?

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Yeah, I don't want a merge.  I have these config entries (as per our
> wiki recommendations):
>
> [branch "master"]
>        rebase = true
> [branch]
>        autosetuprebase = always
>
> and what I really want is to update all my workdirs the same way git
> pull would do, but not have to repeat the "git fetch" part.  This isn't
> only a matter of saving network time, it's that I don't necessarily want
> the branch heads moving underneath me for branches I already updated.

I can't speak to the multiple work-dirs aproach, and I don't know how
all your symlinks need to be setup for that.

But, if you've got a current "origin" remote available in your
repository, just do the repase directly, don't do the pull:  git rebase [-i] origin/$branch

All the "pull" does is:  git fetch $origin $branch && git <merge | rebase> FETCH_HEAD

And it get $origin and $branch from your git config, and chooses
merge/rebase based on the branch config too.

If you know you alwyas want to rebase, and your "origin" is always
up-to-date, don't use pull, just use rebase.

I'll admit to being one of the git old-timers that has never used pull
in a reall operation (because I always have an up-to-date remote
already fetched).  So I exclusively use merge/rebase directly.

> BTW, I've noticed that "git push" will reject an attempt to push an
> update in one branch if my other branches are not up to date, even
> if I am not trying to push anything for those branches.  That's
> pretty annoying too; is there a way around that?

Well, that would be because your "refspec" for pushing is trying to
"push" those branches, and the server is rejecting a non-ff merge.
You can change your refspec to not try and push all the matching
branches (default) to only push the branch you want to push.

A few aliases you might like to try:
[alias]       myrebase = !echo git rebase -i $(git config branch.$(git
name-rev --name-only HEAD).remote)/$(git name-rev --name-only HEAD)       mypush = !echo git push -n -v $(git config
branch.$(git
name-rev --name-only HEAD).remote) $(git name-rev --name-only HEAD)