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Two aliases you can use to update your fork / repo of an OSS project easily. Uses current local branch name for remote target.
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update_oss_fork.bash
# add to .bash_profile
# uses current local branch name for remote target.
# e.g. if on branch 'dev' will fetch & merge upstream/dev into local 'dev' branch
alias branch="git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD"
alias update_fork='git fetch upstream && git merge upstream/$(branch) $(branch) && $(push)'
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