autosetuprebase is annoying because it doesn't apply to any already existing branches, and because it's configuring a per-branch setting going forward, if you e

autosetuprebase is annoying because it doesn't apply to any already existing branches, and because it's configuring a per-branch setting going forward, if you ever want to change the setting later after you have a lot of branches, you're going to be making a lot of config changes in a lot of places. Instead you can just do: git config --global pull.rebase true