Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

7.4 Pushing Changes

Getting changes from upstream repositories is only half of keeping in sync with everyone else on your team. You also need to be able to push changes back to an upstream repository to share the changes with everyone else.

Retrieving Pushed Changes

It’s not common, but there might be a case where you need to let someone push changes into your private repository. Or maybe you have to do it. I push changes between my private repositories in other virtual machines whenever I’m testing code in multiple OSs.

If changes are pushed into your repository—either by yourself or by someone else—those changes won’t be reflected in your working tree. This keeps someone else from overwriting changes you have in your working tree that ...