Git remote branch workflow

Question

We're using GitHub here. I have a friend who branched our master branch, and I want to checkout his branch, make a few mods, then put them into his branch.

My thought is to grab his branch using git checkout --track -b origin/my_friends_branch then making my mods and committing, and then....not really sure. I'd like to send him a pull request but am not sure how to do that on a remote branch?

Also not sure if I should take the opportunity to dip my toes in the rebase waters, which I've been slow to try, simply out of ignorance, and whether when working on a remote branch it makes special sense to do so.

Answer 1

git pull --all
git checkout my_friends_branch
git push origin my_friends_branch