Pull and Push

Now that we have commited our changes, it’s time to push the changes to the server. Note that the commit you just made is still in your local machine. By pushing it we would let the server know about the local changes we had commited.

It’s always a good practice to pull first before you push to avoid any conflicts.

Pull from a branch

By pull, you are downloading the latest snapshot of git to your local machine. If you don’t have any branches, you can simply use git pull

But here, we are in a branch other than master. We need to pull latest snapshot of this branch, hence

git pull origin <branchName>

Once we have sucessfuly pulled without any conflicts, we are ready to push our commits.

Pushing to a branch

If you don’t have any branches, you can simply use git push

If we need to push to a particular branch

git push origin <branchName>

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