I agree with that. I have an alias for "git pull --ff-only", which I use often though. It's faster than manually doing the fetch and then merge/rebase. If it s

I agree with that. I have an alias for "git pull --ff-only", which I use often though. It's faster than manually doing the fetch and then merge/rebase. If it succeeds you're at the newest version, if not you can still decide whether to merge or rebase. This should be the default behavior for git pull in my opinion.