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Pushing and pulling directly to and

from your collaborators' Git repos is a good skill to have.

But most developers today work through a Git hosting service, like GitHub, GitLab,

or Bitbucket.

Let's see how to apply what we've learned using a hosted repo.

We'll be using GitHub for these demonstrations, but

the steps are similar on other hosting platforms.

I'm here in my original decoder repo,

the one we were using as a remote in a previous stage.

I've deleted the other decoder local repo, I've created a GitHub repo for

this project.

We'll have more info in the teachers notes if you need to review how to setup a repo

on GitHub.

I've followed the directions provided by GitHub to setup their repo as a remote

on my local repo named origin.

And this step from their setup directions probably looks familiar to you by now.

It pushes from the local master branch,

which I have checked out, to a remote master branch on origin.

And because I included the -u option, it sets the origin master

remote branch as the upstream branch for the local master branch.

The local master branch is now a tracking branch for the remote

origin master branch, meaning we'll be able to use git push and git pull with it.

Now that I've pushed my master branch up to the GitHub repo,

if I refresh my browser we'll see the master branch.

All the files from the master branch are here, and

the full list of commits from the master branch is here as well.

There's a drop-down here that lets you switch between branches, but

master is the only branch available right now.

Let's try pushing another branch from our local repo to GitHub,

I'll switch to the add-letters branch, git checkout add-letters.

Add-letters has several commits that aren't on the master branch,

including conversions up through the letter k.

To send this branch to GitHub, we run a git push command, just like we did for

master, git push -u origin add-letters.

That will push our local add-letters branch to a remote

branch named add-letters on the origin repo which is our GitHub repo.

And because I included the -u option, our local add-letters

branch will be set as a tracking branch for the remote origin add-letters branch.

Allowing us to use the git pull and git push commands with the add-letters branch.

If I refresh my browser,

we'll see that the add letters branch is now available on GitHub.

I can switch to the add-letters branch from the drop-down.

The commit list now reflects the set of commits on the add letters branch,

and the contents of the files now match the most recent commit

on the add-letters branch.

You'll also see a new recently pushed branches section up here at the top,

which now includes our add-letters branch.

There's also a pull request button,

we'll look at what this button does in the next video.