Git Tutorial / git pull

[awdeorio]

Recommending git pull over git fetch && git rebase might be slightly easier for students. In our application with a single branch and two contributors, pull vs. rebase doesn't really matter very much.

If we do this, we'd need to include the one-time configuration of merge vs. rebase, otherwise students will get an error like this:

$ git pull
hint: You have divergent branches and need to specify how to reconcile them.
hint: You can do so by running one of the following commands sometime before
hint: your next pull:
hint: 
hint:   git config pull.rebase false  # merge
hint:   git config pull.rebase true   # rebase
hint:   git config pull.ff only       # fast-forward only
hint: 
hint: You can replace "git config" with "git config --global" to set a default
hint: preference for all repositories. You can also pass --rebase, --no-rebase,
hint: or --ff-only on the command line to override the configured default per
hint: invocation.
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