# Feature: checkout and merge 3 messages from 2020-10-12 to 2020-10-12. Participants: Victor Porton, Konstantin Tokarev, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54395 ## Victor Porton, 2020-10-12 11:05 Subject: Feature: checkout and merge Message-ID: <28a86c75-de4d-acbe-dab7-e5512961538c@narod.ru> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/28a86c75-de4d-acbe-dab7-e5512961538c%40narod.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.) ``` ## Konstantin Tokarev, 2020-10-12 15:04 Subject: Re: Feature: checkout and merge Message-ID: <5293161602514983@mail.yandex.ru> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5293161602514983%40mail.yandex.ru In-Reply-To: <28a86c75-de4d-acbe-dab7-e5512961538c@narod.ru> ``` 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? --  Regards, Konstantin ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2020-10-12 17:48 Subject: Re: Feature: checkout and merge Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqo8l7pc7w.fsf%40gitster.c.googlers.com 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. ```