github help article implemented as shell script. is there an easier way?

remotes.bash

# based on the workflow from https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork

function fetch_remotes() {
  for remote in $(echo $(git remote))
  do
    git fetch $remote
  done
}

function hub_sync() {
  git co master &&
  fetch_remotes &&
  git merge upstream/master &&
  git push origin master &&
  git st
}

hub_sync

where st is an alias for status, and co for checkout

and based on the assumption that you want to keep track of a lot of different stuff your team is doing

fetch_remotes could be replaced with git fetch --all, IIRC

I would also recommend using either git rebase upstream/master instead of git merge or adding the --ff-only flag to the merge command. This way your fork's history closely matches the upstream. Otherwise your fork could begin to accumulate merge-commits.