add news item for ikiwiki 3.20130710

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@@ -19,3 +19,19 @@ into this special-purpose branch. I guess it would work nicely if I had only
 one offline box with not-yet-pushed changes at the same time, but would break
 in awful and various ways when it is not the case. Any alternative idea?
 --[[intrigeri]]
+
+> Not that I'm very careful to avoid pushing merge commits (see git log ;-), 
+> but I sometimes use `git pull --rebase` to pull changes from a repo. That
+> will rebase your local changes on top of the changes pulled, avoiding the
+> merge commits. I'm sure more involved solutions are possible. --[[Joey]]
+
+> I decided to use my local `master` branch as a copy of `origin/master`
+> (kitenet) and move my local modifications to a separate branch.  I'm using
+> `master` to edit the wiki but there is still the problem of new upstream
+> commits since the last pull.  I already had this problem as Joey had pushed
+> some changes while I was editing locally.  Not knowing about
+> `pull --rebase`, I took the long way out: branch, roll back HEAD, rebase,
+> and merge.  That was too much work...It looks like `pull --rebase` is the
+> way to go. --[[JasonBlevins]]
+
+Awesome ! --[[xma]]