Subject: Re: Feature: checkout and merge

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:48:19 -0700

Konstantin Tokarev <[email-masked]> writes:

> 12.10.2020, 14:12, "Victor Porton" <[email-masked]>:
>> 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.