How to merge the current branch into another branch

Question

I have two branches, master and dev. I always work on dev and only check code into the master branch once it\'s been approved for production use. When I do so, I have to do

Answer 1

Your best bet would be to just use an alias, placed in your global gitconfig (~/.gitconfig):

[alias]
    merge-to = "!f() { git checkout $1 && git merge $2 && git checkout -; }; f"

so that you can invoke it from any repository as

git merge-to master dev