By default, when performing git pull, a merge commit will be created if the history of the local branch has diverged from the remote one. However, to avoid all these merge commits, a repository can be configured so that it will default to rebase instead of merging when doing git pull. Several configuration targets related to the option are available as follows:
- pull.rebase: This configuration, when set to true, will pull to rebase the current branch on top of the fetched one when performing a git pull. It can also be set to preserve so that the local merge commit will not be flattened in the rebase, by passing --preserve-merges to git rebase. The default value is false,as the configuration is not set. To set this option ...
