On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Which can be solved by adding the above "fail" option, and then
> renaming them to "pull.integrate" and "branch.<name>.integrate" to
> clarify what these variables are about (it is no longer "do you
> rebase or not---if you choose not to rebase, by definition you are
> going to merge", as there is a third choice to "fail"), while
> retaining "pull.rebase" and "branch.<name>.rebase" as a deprecated
> synonym.

All these names are completely unintuitive. First of all, why
"integrate"? Integrate what to what? And then, why "fail"? Fail on
what circumstances? Always?

My proposal that does:

  pull.mode = merge/rebase/merge-ff-only

Is way more intuitive.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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