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Share work with remotes

Clone repositories and understand fetch, pull and push.

12 min 5-question quiz

By the end of this lesson you can

Use remote commands to synchronize without confusing local and hosted history.

A remote is a named URL for another copy of a repository, often hosted on a service. git fetch downloads commits and updates remote-tracking references without changing your current branch. git pull fetches and then integrates; git push sends your local commits to a remote.

terminal · git

1git clone https://example.com/team/app.git
2cd app
3git remote -v
4
5git fetch origin
6git log --oneline main..origin/main
7
8git push -u origin feature/profile

Output

origin  https://example.com/team/app.git (fetch)
origin  https://example.com/team/app.git (push)

# commits on origin/main not yet in main

branch 'feature/profile' set up to track 'origin/feature/profile'

An upstream branch links a local branch to its remote counterpart so commands such as git pull and git push can infer a destination. Always inspect what you are pushing, especially if the remote branch has moved.

Key takeaways

git clone creates a local copy of a remote repository.
git fetch downloads updates; git pull also integrates them.
git push sends commits to a remote, and -u sets an upstream on first push.

Lesson quiz

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