The original title is: "Stop Rebasing Every Time: A Safer Way to Keep Your Git Branch Updated with `master`"

Short summary

A practical guide to creating a Git alias that automates syncing feature branches with master using merge instead of rebase. The alias fetches, checks out, resets to remote, and merges with --no-ff in one command. It includes safety checks to prevent losing uncommitted work and warns about the destructive nature of git reset --hard.

• •Custom git sync-branch alias automates fetch, checkout, reset, and merge in one step
• •Uses merge --no-ff to preserve commit history instead of rebasing
• •Includes safety checks for uncommitted changes but warns about destructive reset --hard

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