simple git merge script to merge current branch into a given branch

git_merge.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Usage: To merge current git branch into a branch called 'dev' and be back to the current branch
# ./git_merger.sh dev

target="$1"
current=`git branch | awk '/\*/{print $2}'`

git checkout ${target}
git pull origin ${target}
git pull origin ${current}
git push origin ${target}
git checkout ${current}

# This is extremely simple single purpose script, i normally use it in bashrc by putting this inside a function