git pull has two problems:

• It merges upstream changes by default, when it's really more polite to rebase over them, unless your collaborators enjoy a commit graph that looks like bedhead.
• It only updates the branch you're currently on, which means git push will shout at you for being behind on branches you don't particularly care about right now.

Solve them once and for all.

$ gem install git-up

Windows support is predictably absent. Try the Python port, which was started for that reason.

git-up might mess up your branches, or set your chest hair on fire, or be racist to your cat, I don't know. It works for me.

Windows support is an ongoing pain. Have a look at this ticket if you really need it, or if you're bored.

If you're using RVM and you get this error, read this.

git-up has a few configuration options, which use git's configuration system. Each can be set either globally or per-project. To set an option globally, append the --global flag to git config, which you can run anywhere:

git config --global git-up.bundler.check true

To set it within a project, run the command inside that project's directory and omit the --global flag:

cd myproject
git config git-up.bundler.check true

Default: false. If true, git-up will check your app for any new bundled gems and suggest a bundle install if necessary.

Default: false. If true, and if git-up.bundler.check is also set to true, git-up will run bundle install for you if it finds missing gems.

Default: true. Append the --prune flag when running git fetch, if your git version supports it (1.6.6 or greater), telling it to remove any remote tracking branches which no longer exist on the remote.

Default: false. Normally, git-up will only fetch remotes for which there is at least one local tracking branch. Setting this option to true will make git-up always fetch from all remotes, which is useful if e.g. you use a remote to push to your CI system but never check those branches out.

Default: unset. Additional arguments to pass to git rebase. For example, setting this to --preserve-merges will recreate your merge commits in the rebased branch.

Default: true. If this option is set to false, git-up will not rebase branches for you. Instead, it will print a message saying they are diverged and let you handle rebasing them later. This can be useful if you have a lot of in-progress work that you don't want to deal with at once, but still want to update other branches.

Default: unset. Runs COMMAND every time a branch is rebased or fast-forwarded, with the old head as $1 and the new head as $2. This can be used to view logs or diffs of incoming changes. For example: 'echo "changes on $1:"; git log --oneline --decorate $1..$2'