There are a couple of scenarios I can think of to help it make more sense: 1) You're pushing to a remote server which has a checkout of the working copy as the

There are a couple of scenarios I can think of to help it make more sense: 1) You're pushing to a remote server which has a checkout of the working copy as the live version of something, e.g. a webapp. 2) You're pushing to a co-workers repository to allow them to see updates (though probably a less likely scenario)