Submitting changes in git

Lets learn how to submit changes to the remote repository.

Since a clean repository is usually shared on some network server, we need to send our changes to other repositories. Start by creating a change to be sent. Edit the README file and do a commit

FILE: README

This is the Hello World example from the git tutorial.
(Changed in the original and pushed to shared)

RUN:

git checkout master
git add README
git commit -m "Added shared comment to readme"

Now send changes to the shared repository.

RUN:

git push shared master

The shared repository is the one receiving changes sent by us. (Remember, we added it as a remote repository in the previous lesson).

RESULT:

$ git push shared master
To ../hello.git
   2faa4ea..79f507c  master -> master

Note: We had to explicitly specify the master branch to submit changes. It can be configured automatically, but I always forget the command. For easy management of remote branches switch to «Git Remote Branch».