Merge and Rebase with Auto Stash to Accelerate Pulling

Posted on: 2024-01-30

Keeping your branch up-to-date with the main branch or the feature branch is a necessity. Waiting too long and you may have more conflicts to resolve.

The normal command is invoking git pull. However, if you have uncommitted changes, you will need to stash them first or create a commit before receiving the upstream code.

To avoid having to stash your code and pop the stash later, we can add few lines in the ~/.gitconfig. The change uses autoStash which will stash, pull and pop the stash for you.

[rebase]
	autoStash = true
[merge]
	autoStash = true