pull: introduce a pull.rebase option to enable --rebase

Currently we either need to set branch.<name>.rebase for existing
branches if we'd like "git pull" to mean "git pull --rebase", or have
the forethought of setting "branch.autosetuprebase" before we create
the branch.

Introduce a "pull.rebase" option to globally configure "git pull" to
mean "git pull --rebase" for any branch.

This option will be considered at a lower priority than
branch.<name>.rebase, i.e. we could set pull.rebase=true and
branch.<name>.rebase=false and the latter configuration option would
win.

Reviewed-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Vezzosi <buccia@repnz.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Herman <eric@freesa.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -668,10 +668,12 @@ branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
 branch.<name>.rebase::
 	When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch,
 	instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when
-	"git pull" is run.
-	*NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
-	it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
-	for details).
+	"git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non
+	branch-specific manner.
++
+*NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
+it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
+for details).
 
 browser.<tool>.cmd::
 	Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
@@ -1548,6 +1550,16 @@ pretty.<name>::
 	Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
 	will be silently ignored.
 
+pull.rebase::
+	When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead
+	of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git
+	pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a
+	per-branch basis.
++
+*NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
+it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
+for details).
+
 pull.octopus::
 	The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
 	at once.

Documentation/git-pull.txt

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
 	fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing
 	non-local changes.
 +
-See `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in
+See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in
 linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use
 `{litdd}rebase` instead of merging.
 +

git-pull.sh

@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ merge_args=
 curr_branch=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
 curr_branch_short="${curr_branch#refs/heads/}"
 rebase=$(git config --bool branch.$curr_branch_short.rebase)
+if test -z "$rebase"
+then
+	rebase=$(git config --bool pull.rebase)
+fi
 dry_run=
 while :
 do

t/t5520-pull.sh

@@ -94,16 +94,35 @@ test_expect_success '--rebase' '
 	test $(git rev-parse HEAD^) = $(git rev-parse copy) &&
 	test new = $(git show HEAD:file2)
 '
+test_expect_success 'pull.rebase' '
+	git reset --hard before-rebase &&
+	git config --bool pull.rebase true &&
+	test_when_finished "git config --unset pull.rebase" &&
+	git pull . copy &&
+	test $(git rev-parse HEAD^) = $(git rev-parse copy) &&
+	test new = $(git show HEAD:file2)
+'
 
 test_expect_success 'branch.to-rebase.rebase' '
 	git reset --hard before-rebase &&
-	git config branch.to-rebase.rebase 1 &&
+	git config --bool branch.to-rebase.rebase true &&
+	test_when_finished "git config --unset branch.to-rebase.rebase" &&
 	git pull . copy &&
-	git config branch.to-rebase.rebase 0 &&
 	test $(git rev-parse HEAD^) = $(git rev-parse copy) &&
 	test new = $(git show HEAD:file2)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'branch.to-rebase.rebase should override pull.rebase' '
+	git reset --hard before-rebase &&
+	git config --bool pull.rebase true &&
+	test_when_finished "git config --unset pull.rebase" &&
+	git config --bool branch.to-rebase.rebase false &&
+	test_when_finished "git config --unset branch.to-rebase.rebase" &&
+	git pull . copy &&
+	test $(git rev-parse HEAD^) != $(git rev-parse copy) &&
+	test new = $(git show HEAD:file2)
+'
+
 test_expect_success '--rebase with rebased upstream' '
 
 	git remote add -f me . &&