Push a branch

Before pushing, inspect the local commits and remote configuration:

git status
git log --oneline --decorate -3
git remote -v

Publish a new local branch with:

git push -u origin add-search

Git sends objects the remote needs and asks it to update its add-search branch. A successful push also updates your origin/add-search remote-tracking reference.

The -u option records the upstream relationship. Later, plain git status, git push, and git pull can relate the local branch to that remote branch.

Verify it:

git status
git branch -vv

A push can be rejected when the remote branch contains commits your local branch does not have. Do not immediately force-push. Fetch, inspect the graph, and integrate or coordinate the remote work first.

Pushing does not make uncommitted or merely staged changes available remotely. Only commits are transferred.

Exercise: modify a file without committing it, then push. Confirm that the remote branch does not receive the working-tree edit.