Seqence of git merge commands for pulling and merging remote branches

gitmerge

#!/bin/bash

current_branch=`git branch|grep "*" | cut -d " " -f 2 ` 
target_branch=$1

if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "No target branch supplied"
  else 
  	`git checkout $target_branch`
  	`git pull origin $target_branch`
  	`git checkout $current_branch`
  	`git merge $target_branch`
fi