When should a completed feature be committed and pushed to GitHub?

When should a completed feature be committed and pushed to GitHub?

Commit when you have a coherent checkpoint worth preserving. Push when that checkpoint is ready to share with the remote branch according to the team's workflow. A completed feature should also satisfy its acceptance criteria and have important findings resolved.

Distinguish checkpoints from completion

A local commit can preserve an intermediate step before the entire feature is finished. Likewise, a feature branch can be pushed early for collaboration or a draft pull request. These actions should not misrepresent unfinished work as ready to merge.

For task management, a completed creation flow means more than a rendered form. Valid tasks must persist, invalid input must be handled, and the correct users must have access. Assignment or RSVP behavior should not be implied if it remains outside the increment.

Evaluate the final feature state

Inspect the diff and ensure it contains only the intended work. Run relevant checks, exercise the important journeys, and address confirmed review or QA defects. Keep documentation consistent with the behavior.

If accepted limitations remain, describe them clearly. For example, filtering may be deferred while creation and completion are ready. The commit and pull-request descriptions should accurately represent that boundary.

Share work without bypassing review

Confirm the destination branch and push the intended commits. Use the pull request to show requirements, implementation choices, and validation evidence. Follow the repository's review and merge requirements.

If you must integrate other changes first, recheck the affected behavior afterward. Readiness is a property of the final combined implementation, not of an earlier test result from a different version. Treat merge and deployment as their own decisions within the established release process.