Push, Pull And Clone

Part of the Version Control section of Coddy's Terminal journey — lesson 48 of 58.

Three commands move work between your local repo and a remote:

git clone <url>: download a complete copy of an existing remote repo, including its full history. This is how you start working on someone else's project.

git push <remote> <branch>: upload your local commits on the named branch to the remote.
git pull <remote> <branch>: download new commits from the remote and merge them into your current branch. It is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge.

The first time you push a new branch, you usually pass -u (or --set-upstream) to remember the link:

git push -u origin feature-login

After that, plain git push and git pull use the saved upstream automatically.

You will not run any of these against a real server in this course, but you will recognize them everywhere in real-world tutorials.

Cheat sheet

Remote sync commands:

git clone <url> – download a complete copy of a remote repo
git push <remote> <branch> – upload local commits to the remote
git pull <remote> <branch> – download and merge remote commits (shorthand for git fetch + git merge)

Use -u on first push to save the upstream link for future git push/git pull calls: