A slightly open question regarding best practices, I can find lots of functional guides for git but not much info about standard ordering of operations etc:

Whats the standard/nice way of working with remote repositories, specifically for making a change and taking it all the way back to the remote master. Can someone provide a step-by-step list of procedures they normally follow when doing this. i.e. something like:

1) clone repo 2) create new local branch of head 3) make changes locally and commit to local branch 4) ...