Request for D core devs: git pull --rebase

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:16:01 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Rebasing, I understand. Rebasing happens often enough in pull requests.
> It affects branches that way, not master, so I don't think that it's
> really all that big a deal - particularly when such branchs frequently
> created just for that pull request and are deleted aftewards.

I agree it probably isn't a big deal, but it _is_ a rewrite and _does_ 
have some implications. If you merge with --rebase, that branch is 
_dead_. As pull requests are public this could cause confusion, but 
mostly it should be something to be aware of.

It maybe reasonable, but as you say, why do it if you don't get to use 
the merge button.