Push/Pull non-working branches from remote

[yano]

I bought Sublime Text + Sublime Merge the other day and am enjoying Sublime Merge

I love that Sublime Merge is so snappy, but as a long time SourceTree user, there are two workflow items I’d love to see added to the GUI.

1. Push non-working branch to origin, seen here in SourceTree:
   
   e.g. you create a branch on a specific commit and then want to push it to the origin for someone else to see, or as a merge target

2. Pull remote branch into your working branch,
   (In SourceTree: right click remote branch, and it says "Pull origin/XXX into ")
   e.g.git fetch followed by git merge

Maybe there’s easy way to do this now that I’m missing? Thanks

[deathaxe]

No. 2 is possible by just right clicking onto a remote branch and say “Merge … into …”. That’s actually the same workflow as would be for local branches.

If that branch is on another remote repo, you probably need to add it by calling “Add Remote…” from command palette.

[yano]

Good call, I missed that nuance for No2… Does it automatically fetch first?

[deathaxe]

How should it merge, otherwise?

[bschaaf]

No it does not fetch first, it just does a merge.