Years ago... I was a pretty prolific svn user. Coming from svn, I knew that it would fetch changes from the central server (remote in git parlance) and then reb

Years ago... I was a pretty prolific svn user. Coming from svn, I knew that it would fetch changes from the central server (remote in git parlance) and then rebase them with whatever you had in your local tree. This is where git up came from, literally an equivalent of svn up.