How do I execute several git commands in a batch file without terminating after the first command?

Question

I tried to put a series of GIT commands that I always use continuously togeter as batch files so that I don\'t repeat myself too much. For example, I have this batch file ca

Answer 1

Assuming you are using msysGit as your Git client you might actually want to use Bash scripts for this. You could place a bash function in your ~/.bashrc (~ is usually your C:\Users\- see here) as follows

update_repo_branch() {
    if [ $# != "2" ]; then
        echo "Usage: update_repo_branch REPO BRANCH" 1>&2
        return 1
    fi

    cd $1
    git checkout $2
    git fetch origin
    git merge origin/$2
}

You can then run update_repo_branch myrepo cool-branch from the mysysGit shell.

Of course, this won't be accessible from cmd.exe. You will only be able to use it within the msysGit cygwin shell.