title: Git: automatic fetching from remote repositories?
body: <p>One irritating thing I find about using command line Git is having to manually sync my repository with remote repositories. I constantly get tripped up by commands like "git status" that I (mistakenly) expect to report the difference between my working directory and a repository on GitHub. (Of course it reports the difference between my working directory and my local repository...)</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get automatic/implicit fetching, so that remotes are always up to date? I would happily pay a penalty of a few seconds for commands like git status, git merge etc.</p>