On 2013-09-07 22:41, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Which can be solved by adding the above "fail" option, and then
>> renaming them to "pull.integrate" and "branch.<name>.integrate" to
>> clarify what these variables are about (it is no longer "do you
>> rebase or not---if you choose not to rebase, by definition you are
>> going to merge", as there is a third choice to "fail"), while
>> retaining "pull.rebase" and "branch.<name>.rebase" as a deprecated
>> synonym.
>
> All these names are completely unintuitive. First of all, why
> "integrate"? Integrate what to what? And then, why "fail"? Fail on
> what circumstances? Always?
>
> My proposal that does:
>
> pull.mode = merge/rebase/merge-ff-only
>
> Is way more intuitive.
+1
What about something like:
pull.mergeoptions (defaults to --ff-only)
pull.rebaseoptions (defaults to empty? --preserve-merges?)
branch.<name>.pull.mergeoptions (defaults to pull.mergeoptions)
branch.<name>.pull.rebaseoptions (defaults to pull.rebaseoptions)
-Richard
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