Last Updated: May 15, 2019

A Simple Shell Function to Update Git Branches

A client of mine was having a hard time remembering the project workflow to keep topic branches updated, so I put together this simple shell function as a workflow reference:

function git-sync-master() {
 git checkout master && 
 git fetch origin &&
 git pull origin master &&
 git checkout 1ドル &&
 git rebase master
}

As written, that could be added to a ~/.bash_profile or similar location allowing you to run something like:

$ cd myproject
$ git-sync-master mybranch

Taking this one step further, you can "integrate" this command in to git with the following minor modifications:

$ cat > ~/bin/git-sync-master
git checkout master &&
 git fetch origin &&
 git pull origin master &&
 git checkout 1ドル &&
 git rebase master
^D

$ chmod +x ~/bin/git-sync-master
$ cd myproject
$ git sync-master mybranch

#shell

#git