Publishing Your Changes
Chapter 6, Collaborative Development with Git (the previous chapter), taught you how to use Git to work together as a team, focusing on repository-to-repository interaction. It described different ways of setting up repositories for collaboration, presenting different collaborative workflows, such as centralized and integration manager workflows. It also showed how Git manages information about remote repositories.
In this chapter, you will find out how you can exchange information between your local repository and remote repositories, and how Git can manage credentials that might be needed to access remote repositories.
This chapter will also teach you how to provide your changes upstream, so that they appear in the official history of the project, in its canonical repository. This can be done by pushing your changes to a central repository, pushing them to your own publishing repository and sending some kind of a pull request to the integration manager...