Question

Here is what I did:

Cloned a remote repository to my local computer. Created a second clone from the first clone. Made changes in the second clone. Never touched anything that resides in the first clone.

Now what happens if I directly push to remote repo from the second clone? A new branch is introduced in the remote repo?

Maybe a stupid question but I can’t test it because there are other developers working on the code and I don’t want to mess anything.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Now what happens if I directly push to remote repo from the second clone? A new branch is introduced in the remote repo?

What you would want to do in this situation is clone the central repo again (in case any other programmers made changes) merge your changes with those, and then push that back to the central repo.

This ensures that your branch is now part of the main branch again.

Metropolis

EDIT
Maybe this will be a little more clear

1. Clone repo1 to your machine
2. Make a clone of repo1 on your machine to keep the original in tact
3. Make changes to repo2 on your machine
4. Pull changes from repo2 to repo1, merge (if needed)
5. Clone CR again (in case other programmers made changes)
6. Pull changes from repo1 to the newly cloned repo (merge if needed)
7. Push newly cloned repo back to CR
8. Clone CR again and remove all of your repos to get the newest copy