How to force pull before push

Every time I want to push my commits (git commit -m "message", git push origin <branch>), I do a pull (git pull origin <branch>).
Is there any way to make git do a pull before performing my push? (on the same branch)

Solution

The Git way to do this is with customize Git hooks.

In your case, you will need to go to the .git/hooks directory on your repository, and add a file named pre-push, which is a script of your choice, e.g. (bash in this example)

#!/bin/bash

echo "pulling ..."
git pull

This script will be called when you do git push and before the actual push.

Obviously, this is just a very naive sample, but I hope you get the idea. There are samples in this directory already. Comment if anything still unclear.