Hi,

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, しらいしななこ wrote:
> >
> >> Quoting Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> >> 
> >> > "git pull --rebase" already has an implementation. Dscho cooked one up
> >> > which I've been using since then. It works nicely.
> >> 
> >> What is the reason that the option was not added to the official git?  
> >> Was it coded poorly, buggy or were there some other issues?
> >
> > It is very well possible that it was coded poorly ;-)
> >
> > The main reason, I believe, was that some old-timers who know the 
> > implications said that it would encourage a wrong workflow.  One thing 
> > that could go possibly wrong, for example, is to rebase commits that you 
> > already published.
> >
> > So AFAICT it was deemed not only giving people rope, but making that rope 
> > look like a necklace to them.
> 
> Hmph, that is different from how I remember, and the "workflow" argument
> would not be something I would make if we were having that discussion
> today.
> 
> I think what happened was that we took a misguided detour to make this
> an option to "git merge" (which was _my_ mistake IIRC, sorry), which did
> not pan out well (because rebase is not "a different form of merge").
> After that for some reason we failed to follow-up on the topic.  We
> could have gone back to the original "a pull is integrating following a
> fetch, and the integration does not have to be merge" approach to see if
> it was workable, but we didn't.
> 
> If people find it useful, I do not think of a huge reason to object to
> the inclusion.  "Give them rope" is good ;-)

FWIW the my last reply in that thread was 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/62382/focus=62405

Ciao,
Dscho