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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John Cowie 2013-08-08 17:38:06 +01:00
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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