Avoiding merge bubbles

[Hal Murray]

esr at thyrsus.com said:
>> Is there any way to set things up so --rebase is the default with pull?
> Yes.  If you look in your .git/config, adding the "rebase = true" line will
> set --rebase for all pulls from master. 

Thanks.

Where should that be documented?  I think I set that when you sent out a 
similar message a long time ago but I lost it when making a new clone.

Are there other git quirks that should be documented?


>> Is there any way to recover after I forget?
> Not short of repository surgery.  Remember the hash chain - git is actually
> designed to make it difficult to modify old commits. 

If the crap is in my local copy, I can move the whole directory to the side, 
get a new clone, and merge my edits back in.  Recovering my edits could be 
ugly, but in the no-collision case it's not that hard.  Diff the directories 
to find the files you have edited, copy them over and commit...


>> Can we fix the push process to reject pushes if they have that
>> type of comment?
> Theoretically possible, but probably a bad idea.  We will probably have to
> do real branch merges occasionally. 

I was thinking of looking for an exact match on the default commit message.  
If there was a real collision the message should say something interesting.


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