Setting up branches to always rebase in git

So, today at Harmony Hackathon, several people asked me to post the way to set up your branches in git to always rebase. I know this is a controversial thing in git, if you disagree with me on why you might want to rebase, I don't care. I like it and all I'm doing in this post is telling people how to do it if they want to. Don't do it if you're afraid of rebase, you don't want rebase, or you are afraid your friends will shun you for using rebases by default. Don't tell me if you don't like rebase, because I don't care ;)

Ok... I'm going to tell you how to set up rebase to ALWAYS rebase on ALL repos. If you don't want this for all repos, then you can do this on a per-repo basis by doing all the config without "--system". Also, you can use "--global" instead of "--system" if you want to ensure that other people that use your machine aren't affected by the setting (nobody else uses my machines, so I don't care and do all my config at the --system level).

So, to set up all "master" branches to do rebase by default - do the following:

git config --system branch.master.rebase true

To set up all "new" remote tracking branches to be created with rebase by default, do:

git config --system branch.autosetuprebase always

If you already have remote tracking branches, then I recommend you make sure you're current, delete the local branches, and recreate them (1.7.x does this automatically if you use the branch name to check out the remote branch, so make sure you're using Git 1.7.x or later for that hawtness (as darkxanthos would say)).