git config pull.rebase false

This command updates your Git settings so that every time you run git pull, Git will perform a merge by default rather than a rebase, helping you keep your commit history in a familiar merge-based workflow.

It works by using the config subcommand to set the pull.rebase key to false in your repository’s configuration file, which tells Git not to use the --rebase option during pulls. You can add --global to apply this setting across all your repositories or --local to be explicit about affecting only the current repo.

You can reverse this behavior with git config pull.rebase true or enable it just for one pull via git pull --rebase; similarly, use git config --global pull.rebase merges to rebase but keep merge commits. Other related commands include git pull --no-rebase for a one-off merge pull and configuring fast-forward only merges with git config pull.ff only.