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"you don't type git pull every time, do you?"

No, I fetch and then merge.

"Put those to your .bashrc or .zshrc"

git aliases should be added to gitconfig to avoid muddying the global namespace for commands.

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I don't know how to run a shell alias using a git alias, so I ended up creating a file ~/bin/fact, and defining the git alias as:

  [alias]
    ff = "!fact && git fetch"

It's not a git alias. It would be better to do this as a post-merge hook though.

I know it is not a gitalias, it is a shell wide alias for a command that involves git. That is why I said the better solution would be to use gitalias than your shell's alias functionality. With gitalias you can provide the same functionality without creating the possibility for command conflicts.

I don't like merge commits when you can avoid them.

Indeed... git pull --rebase is your friend (or better yet, set rebase as default strategy for pulls)

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