dropping rebase as default pull

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / rev_control / version_control.sh

diff --git a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
index 8ec547f35d5e35a992edc28e49be323f8a901990..0c8cec27eb097936b340c611d8c7bda5fbf27b7a 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
+++ b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ if (( $gitvertest >= 11 )); then
   # auto-stash is not available until 2.6 for git, but ubuntu is misreporting or using a
   # differing version number somehow.  we are sure autostash was missing on ubuntu xenial
   # with git 2.7.4 and it's definitely present in zesty with git at 2.11.
-  PULL_ADDITION='--rebase --autostash'
+#  PULL_ADDITION='--rebase --autostash'
+#although initially attractive, above set of flags seems to lose history we don't want to
+#lose.
+PULL_ADDITION=
 fi
 
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