Make git pull --rebase preserve merge commits

Question

git pull --rebase removes unpushed merge commits. Is there a way to make it preserve them?

Say my history looks like—

A
| \\ 
B  H
|  |
         


        

Answer 1

Simply:

git pull --rebase=preserve

From the docs:

When set to preserve, rebase with the --preserve-merges option passed to git rebase so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened.