Pushing Changes
How to upload your local commits to a remote repository to share them with your team.
Pushing Changes
git push updates one or more branches, tags, or other references in a remote repository from your local repository.
It sends all necessary data (commits and objects) that isn't already on the remote, bringing the remote branch up-to-date with your local progress.
Why it matters
Web developers use git push to **share code**.
While git commit saves changes locally, git push uploads those changes to a shared remote repository (like GitHub or GitLab). This makes your features, bug fixes, or UI updates available to the rest of the team for review, collaboration, and deployment.
How it works
When executing a command like git push origin main, Git calculates which commits exist on your local main branch but are missing from the remote main branch.
It then pushes only those missing local commits over the network to the remote repository, updating the remote branch's reference to match your local branch's latest commit.
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Remember this
git pushuploads your local commits to a remote.- If the remote has commits you don't have, your push will be rejected.
- Always pull before you push to resolve conflicts locally first.
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