Question

I am new to git and am becoming familiar with the basic commands.

Let’s say I cloned a master branch of some project and I made some changes in the branch, and
I have commited those changes to that branch. How would I update the corresponding master branch using the current branch?

Answer 1

If you mean “How do I update the master branch on the remote git repository?” that is accomplished using git push.

% git push origin master

Of course, this assumes your local branch is named “master” as well.

If you mean “How do I update my local master branch with changes I committed on a separate branch in my local repository?” that is accomplished using git merge

% git checkout master
% git merge my-other-branch