I am with you on this one. Pull existing by default is one of the numerous aberration of git. It is just an alias for fetch/merge or fetch/rebase anyway. It do

I am with you on this one. Pull existing by default is one of the numerous aberration of git. It is just an alias for fetch/merge or fetch/rebase anyway. It doesn't even work the same way for everyone as you can configure what it does. It's up there with stashes (which actually are just temporary commits ahead of the head anyway) and staging as things which shouldn't be there by default. Git really likes making things complicated for newcomers.