I had a comment written up, but I decided to test my claim in my original post about a "litany of literature", and sure enough this has been documented elsewher

I had a comment written up, but I decided to test my claim in my original post about a "litany of literature", and sure enough this has been documented elsewhere: http://gitolite.com/git-pull--rebase http://gitolite.com/git-pull--rebase I searched for "how does git pull --rebase work"