Git push local branch to remote Regardless of whether you prefer GitFlow, GitLab Flow or GitHub Flow, you should perform all of your software development on local, isolated feature branches.

To push an existing project to GitHub, you must first create a GitHub repository. To do this, simply click the green “Create repository” button in GitHub’s online console and provide a repository name ...

Git uses a branch-per-issue model; the local copy is the branch you’re currently working on. You can commit to it, roll it back and, periodically, push it to the GitHub server.