Re: Feature: checkout and merge

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2020, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo8l7pc7w.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <5293161602514983@mail.yandex.ru>

Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> writes:

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> 12.10.2020, 14:12, "Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru>:
>> It is a very often need to checkout a branch and them merge the branch
>> that was before the checkout. Moreover after this is very often needed
>> to push.
>>
>> So please add the flags to `checkout`:
>>
>> 1. to merge the old branch immediately after checkout
>>
>> 2. to push after checkout
>>
>> I repeatedly write:
>>
>> git checkout stable && git merge main && git push && git checkout main
>>
>> (I am not subscribed to this mailing list.)
>
> Why not make a shell script to do this?

Sounds like a very sensible suggestion. "merging and then pushing immediately after" without any validation step in between is not for everybody and being able to implement such a custom workflow is why we have these individual steps as discrete commands.

Thanks.