first-repo: Saving Locally Did Not Change GitHub
Explains save, stage, commit and push as four separate steps in the Git workflow.
Project: first-repo Git and GitHub Introductory Exercise
Symptom: A saved file did not appear on GitHub.
Hypothesis: The file may not have been staged or committed, or the commit may not have been pushed to the intended branch.
Investigation: Checked git status, git log, the current branch, remote URL and the GitHub commit page.
Root cause: Save, local commit and remote push were treated as one action.
Fix: Established the explicit save, stage, commit and push sequence with a status or log check at each boundary.
Lesson: Git does not update a remote merely because a file was saved.