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authorJohn Cowie <john.a.cowie@gmail.com>2013-08-08 17:38:06 +0100
committerJohn Cowie <john.a.cowie@gmail.com>2013-08-08 17:38:06 +0100
commit674e8a0eebfa15afe51c6960cec9712fa186ef45 (patch)
tree0333c18daa40b344e1db4c4baf4d7ff8bce9017f
parentf71ebeacdb05c22a3f6e054f73ae95ee772eee69 (diff)
Explain git pull default behaviour and the use of --rebase flag.
By far the pull command I use the most is 'git pull --rebase', so wanted to add some info to make it clear that that's possible.
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@@ -310,7 +310,12 @@ Pulls from a repository and merges it with another branch.
# Update your local repo, by merging in new changes
# from the remote "origin" and "master" branch.
# git pull <remote> <branch>
+# git pull => implicitly defaults to => git pull origin master
$ git pull origin master
+
+# Merge in changes from remote branch and rebase
+# branch commits onto your local repo, like: "git pull <remote> <branch>, git rebase <branch>"
+$ git pull origin master --rebase
```
### push