Here is another quick post about a neat thing I recently learned.
Git pull
What git pull will actually do behind the scenes, is git fetch & git merge. It will fetch changes from the remote and create a new merge commit.
Git pull --rebase
What git pull --rebase will do, is git fetch & git rebase, effectively reapplying our local changes on top of the remote changes, resulting in a tidy, linear commit history, like this:
Quick tips
Tip #1: Use git config --global pull.rebase true to avoid typing the --rebase flag each time you pull 🧐
Tip #2: Don't forget that you can do all sorts of editing to your commits, before pushing them by using interactive rebase.
git rebase -i
You can check more about this in my other post about useful git commands.
Warning: Use rebase only on local branches, as it rewrites commit history (creates new commits)!
Top comments (2)
Sharing this articles with my coworkers...
We had all been pushing and merging which when trying to decipher what is what on a graph we had several masters and it was hard to follow.
Thanks for the article.
Most of what people need when they do a git pull is met by the execution of a git pull --rebase.
More on this, and the practical implications of using it with other people, here:
sandofsky.com/workflow/git-workflow/
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