Pragmatic Guide to Git

12	Sharing Changes

Remember that Git is different from most traditional version control systems; committing a change and sharing that change are two distinct tasks. Committing changes is covered in detail in Task 7, ​Committing Changes​; this task gives you a quick cheat sheet for the various tasks you need to perform to collaborate with others. For more detail on these steps, see Part IV, Working with a Team.

Once you have a local clone (see Task 4, ​Creating a Local Copy of an Existing Repository​) or have set up a remote after initializing your repository (see Task 19, ​Adding and Removing Remotes​), you need to fetch changes from the remote repository to keep your local branches (we’ll cover what branches are in just ...