--checkout --rebase doesn't pull?

[dbolser-ebi]

This may be 'expected' but I found it surprising. I don't like the default 'merge' of --checkout, so I use ---rebase so as not to arbitrarily change the history with merge commits.

I issued this command to update to release 92:
git ensembl --checkout --branch release/92 --secondary_branch master --rebase available

However, when I then cd to ensembl and hit 'git status', I see:
Your branch is behind 'origin/release/92' by 4 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.

i.e. Although it got the latest commits, it didn't --rebase

• Skipping checkout as we are already on release/92

Should I use --pull instead?