git & github : Merge Branch Into Master Branch

In a typical git scenario you would have a new branch for developers to work on, the when he or she is done. You do your code reviews and what not.  After you are satisfied with the results you would want to merge the new branch into the master branch.

In this post I am going to show you how to merge an existing branch into a master branch

Here are the steps:

1. First you want to checkout the master branch to work on it with the command git checkout master