Question

Currently when I’m working on my local feature branch in order to get latest changes I need to do the following:

git checkout master
git fetch
git rebase
git checkout my-feature
git rebase master

Is there a simplier solution to just pull changes to master branch without switching to it?

Answer 1

I think Git will always switch to master behind the scene, to perform the rebase (considering that rebase starts by a checkout of the destination branch:
see “git rebase, keeping track of ‘local‘ and ‘remote‘“).

You just can use the shortcut git pull --rebase:

git pull --rebase master:master
git checkout my-feature
git rebase master