What are the differences between git commit and git push

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In a Git tutorial I m going through  git commit is used to store the changes you ve made    What is git push used for then

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Basically git commit  records changes to the repository  while git push  updates remote refs along with associated objects   So the first one is used in connection with your local repository  while the latter one is used to interact with a remote repository   Here is a nice picture from Oliver Steele  that explains the git model and the commands     Read more about git push and git pull on GitReady com  the article I referred to first

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git commit is nothing but saving our changes officially  for every commit we give commit message   once we are done with commits we can push it to remote to see our change globally  which means we can do numerous commits before we push to remote  we can see the list of commits happened and the messages too  git saves each commit with commit id which is a 40 digit code  and I use git push only when i wanted to see my change in remote  There after i will check whether my code worked in jenkins

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git push is used to add commits you have done on the local repository to a remote one - together with git pull  it allows people to collaborate

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Three things to note   1 Working Directory ----- folder where our codes file are present  2 Local Repository ------ This is inside our system  When we first time make                            COMMIT command then this Local Repository is created                             in the same place where is our Working directory                                    Checkit      git    file get created                            After that when ever we do commit   this will store the                            changes we make in the file of Working Directory to                            local Repository   git   3 Remote Repository ----- This is situated outside our system like on servers                            located any where in the world   like github                            When we make PUSH command then codes from our local                            repository get stored to this Remote Repository

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A very crude analogy  if we compare git commit to saving an edited file  then git push would be copying that file to another location   Please don t take this analogy out of this context -- committing and pushing are not quite like saving an edited file and copying it  That said  it should hold for comparisons sake

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Commit  Snapshot   Changeset   Version   History-record    Save-as  of a repository  Git repository   series  tree  of commits  Local repository  repository on your computer  Remote repository  repository on a server  Github   git commit  Append a new commit  last commit   staged modifications  to the local repository   Commits are stored in   git  git push  git pull  Sync the local repository with its associated  remote repository  push - apply changes from local into remote  pull - apply changes from remote into local

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Well  basically git commit puts your changes into your local repo  while git push sends your changes to the remote location  Since git is a distributed version control system  the difference is that commit will commit changes to your local repository  whereas push will push changes up to a remote repo  source Google  http   gitref org basic  this link will be very useful too  https   git-scm com docs git-commit

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git commit is to commit the files that is staged in the local repo  git push is to fast-forward merge the master branch of local side with the remote master branch  But the merge won t always success  If rejection appears  you have to pull so that you can make a successful git push

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Since git is a distributed version control system  the difference is that commit will commit changes to your local repository  whereas push will push changes up to a remote repo

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in layman terms  git commit is the step before git push you run them in that order to successfully git your file to github

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Well  basically git commit puts your changes into your local repo  while git push sends your changes to the remote location

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commit  adding changes to the local repository    push  to transfer the last commit s  to a remote server

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Just want to add the following points   Yon can not push until you commit as we use git push to push commits made on your local branch to a remote repository   The git push command takes two arguments   A remote name  for example  origin A branch name  for example  master  For example   git push   lt REMOTENAME gt   lt BRANCHNAME gt   git push  origin       master

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It is easier to understand the use of the git commands add and commit if you imagine a log file being maintained in your repository on Github  A typical project s log file for me may look like   ---------------- Day 1 -------------------- Message  Completed Task A Index of files changed  File1  File2  Message  Completed Task B Index of files changed  File2  File3 -------------------------------------------  ---------------- Day 2 -------------------- Message  Corrected typos Index of files changed  File3  File1 -------------------------------------------            and so on   I usually start my day with a git pull request and end it with a git push request  So everything inside a day s record corresponds to what occurs between them  During each day  there are one or more logical tasks that I complete which require changing a few files  The files edited during that task are listed in an index    Each of these sub tasks Task A and Task B here  are individual commits  The git add command adds files to the  Index of Files Changed  list  This process is also called staging and in reality records changed files and the changes performed  The git commit command records finalizes the changes and the corresponding index list along with a custom message which may be used for later reference    Remember that you re still only changing the local copy of your repository and not the one on Github  After this  only when you do a git push do all these recorded changes  along with your index files for each commit  get logged on the main repository on Github    As an example  to obtain the second entry in that imaginary log file  I would have done   git pull   Make changes to File3 and File4 git add File3 File4   Verify changes  run tests etc   git commit -m  Corrected typos  git push   In a nutshell  git add and git commit lets you break down a change to the main repository into systematic logical sub-changes  As other answers and comments have pointed out  there are ofcourse many more uses to them  However  this is one of the most common usages and a driving principle behind Git being a multi-stage revision control system unlike other popular ones like Svn

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git commit record your changes to the local repository     git push update the remote repository with your local changes

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