Merge, update, and pull Git branches without using checkouts

Question

I work on a project that has 2 branches, A and B. I typically work on branch A, and merge stuff from branch B. For the merging, I would typically do:

git mer         


        

Answer 1

Enter git-forward-merge:

Without needing to checkout destination, git-forward-merge merges source into destination branch.

https://github.com/schuyler1d/git-forward-merge

Only works for automatic merges, if there are conflicts you need to use the regular merge.