Pushing new branches to remote in Git - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Pushing New Branches to Remote

📖 Scenario: You are working on a project with your team using Git. You have created a new branch locally to add a feature. Now, you want to share this branch with your team by pushing it to the remote repository.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to create a new branch locally and push that new branch to the remote repository so others can see and work on it.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a new branch called feature-login locally

Set a variable with the remote name origin

Push the feature-login branch to the remote origin

Display the output of the push command

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Developers often create new branches to work on features or fixes separately. Sharing these branches with the team requires pushing them to the remote repository.

💼 Career

Knowing how to push new branches is essential for collaboration in software development teams using Git.

1

Create a new branch locally

Create a new branch called feature-login using the Git command.

Git

# Create a new branch called feature-login
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use git branch branch-name to create a new branch.

2

Set the remote name variable

Set a variable called remote with the value origin to represent the remote repository name.

Git

git branch feature-login
# Set remote variable to 'origin'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use remote=origin to set the remote variable.

3

Push the new branch to remote

Push the branch feature-login to the remote repository stored in the variable remote using the Git command.

Git

git branch feature-login
remote=origin
# Push feature-login branch to remote
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use git push remote branch-name to push a branch to remote.

4

Display the push command output

Run the push command and display its output to confirm the branch was pushed.

Git

git branch feature-login
remote=origin
git push $remote feature-login
# Display the output of the push command
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use echo to display the output stored in a variable.