If that is indeed the case (although it would seem strange to me to not have
such a commonly used feature), then we should recommend not using it, certainly
for MacPorts related work.
I use the GitHub Desktop app. It is nice to have a graphical display of
differences and to be able to select which ones to commit. Do you have a
suggestion for something I should use instead?
Me, no. You are asking the wrong person, as I favour the command line
client ;)
Maybe you could configure git to always do a rebase when pulling into
your macports checkout.... See for instance
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13846300/how-to-make-git-pull-use-rebase-by-default-for-all-my-repositories>
so for instance
> git config --global pull.rebase true
will configure things to always 'pull --rebase' for all your local
clones. If you don't want it globally, remove the --global and do it
locally for each project.
Note, if you do this, you also might want to enable at the same time
automatic 'autostashing'
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30208928/can-git-pull-automatically-stash-and-pop-pending-changes>
with the above, you could make it so
> git pull
effectively does
> git pull --rebase --autostash
which is what 'sudo port sync' does anyway under the hood (this is
actually how I update my local repo most of the time).
( I have no idea though if any GUI you might use will respect any of
this... If they just run 'git' under the hood it should, but ... )
Chris
