What does it mean when git pull causes a conflict but git pull --rebase doesn't?

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Published on 2010-05-20T13:44:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 14:00 UTC
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I'm pulling from a repository that only I have access to. As far as I know, I've only pushed to it from one repository. A couple of times, I've pulled from it and gotten this:

To [email protected]:tsched_dev.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:tsched_dev.git'
To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected
Merge the remote changes before pushing again.  See the 'Note about
fast-forwards' section of 'git push --help' for details.

Generally, that just means that I have to do a git pull (although all the changes should be fast-forwardable). When I do a git pull, I get conflicts. If I do a git pull --rebase, it works fine. What am I doing wrong?

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