You need to share changes from a feature branch with another developer without merging. How would you do this?

Question

Accepted Answer

Sharing a feature branch without merging means pushing your branch to the shared remote repository so a teammate can fetch and check it out directly, while main stays completely untouched.

Key Points:
• git push origin  uploads your branch and its commits to the remote without touching main.
• The other developer runs git fetch to pull down the new branch reference, then git checkout  to switch to it.
• No merge commit is created and the main branch history is unaffected.
• This is useful for pair-review, testing someone else's work-in-progress, or handing off a task mid-development.
• A draft pull request is a common alternative that gives the same visibility plus a discussion thread.

Example:
You push git push origin feature/login-form, then tell your teammate the branch name; they run git fetch origin and git checkout feature/login-form to get the exact same files you have, including any WIP commits.

Code Example:
```
git push origin feature/login-form

# teammate's machine
git fetch origin
git checkout feature/login-form
```

Interview Tip:
A concise interview answer is:

"I push the feature branch to the remote with git push origin branch-name, and the other developer fetches and checks it out locally. Nothing touches main, so we can share and review work-in-progress code without any merge happening."