Re: Difference between pull --rebase and fetch+rebase

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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:44 PM, martinvz
[off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks for your post, Santi. I can not share my repository since it is a
project at work. I was troubleshooting a bit myself and found the following
section in git-pull.sh:

       oldremoteref="$(git rev-parse -q --verify "$remoteref")" &&
       for reflog in $(git rev-list -g $remoteref 2>/dev/null)
       do
               if test "$reflog" = "$(git merge-base $reflog $curr_branch)"
               then
                       oldremoteref="$reflog"
                       break
               fi
       done

Why is it that reflog entries are allowed to override the remote reference?

This is used when the upstream branch is rebased, as you only want to
rebase the local commits and not commits in the old upstream branch.

Is your upstream branch rebased?

Can you provide, at least, a graph of your history (ala git log
--graph --oneline for example)? And plot also the reflog entries and
all the important commits.

Santi