From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:48:19 GMT Subject: Re: Feature: checkout and merge Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5293161602514983@mail.yandex.ru> Konstantin Tokarev writes: > 12.10.2020, 14:12, "Victor Porton" : >> 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.