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    git-update-branch

Rebase-friendly alternative to the GitHub "Update Branch" button on the pull request page.
Rebases a remote origin branch onto the latest default branch. Right now, hard coded for "develop" even though most people use "master". Feel free to edit.
I personally use this when I have many remote branches to merge and want all of them to be up-to-date with the latest default branch after each rebase. Of course, if you don't prefer rebase as an updating strategy you can just use the "Update branch" button in the GitHub UI. This is a rebase-friendly alternative.
Installation


Create git-update-branch as an executable file, somewhere in your $PATH. I put mine in ~/bin.
Optional, but recommended: create git-update-branch-complete.bash and source inside your shell's profile (e.g. ~/.bash_profile).

License

Public domain

  
## git-update-branch
#!/bin/bash

usage() {
    echo "Usage: git update-branch <remote branch>"
}

branch=$1
test -z $branch && usage && exit 1

echo "Fetching latest origin blobs"
git fetch
echo "Hard reset $branch to origin/$branch"
git update-ref refs/heads/$branch refs/remotes/origin/$branch
echo "Rebasing..."
git rebase origin/develop $branch

## git-update-branch-complete.bash
#!/bin/bash
_git_update_branch ()
{
  # you can return anything here for the autocompletion for example all the branches
  __gitcomp_nl "$(__git_refs)"
}
	#!/bin/bash

	usage() {
	echo "Usage: git update-branch <remote branch>"
	}

	branch=$1
	test -z $branch && usage && exit 1

	echo "Fetching latest origin blobs"
	git fetch
	echo "Hard reset $branch to origin/$branch"
	git update-ref refs/heads/$branch refs/remotes/origin/$branch
	echo "Rebasing..."
	git rebase origin/develop $branch
	#!/bin/bash
	_git_update_branch ()
	{
	# you can return anything here for the autocompletion for example all the branches
	__gitcomp_nl "$(__git_refs)"
	}