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Understanding Git through images

kataoka_nopeNoshishi on January 05, 2023

Hello Dev community! I am a newbie, still a few months into my career as a developer in Japan. I was inspired by Nico Riedmann's Learn g...

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Alessandro Candido • Jan 11 '23

Notice that, as you say in the beginning, Git is a distributed VCS, and not a centralized one.

So, there is no concept of a single remote repo, but instead you have a single local repo (the one you're working in), and many remotes, and they are all the same, from Git perspective.

So, you can have a remote on GitHub, one on GitLab, one on your own desktop at home, and one on your colleague's computer, and for as long as they are reachable you can push on, and pull from, any of them.

True that often there is a single instance on an hosted server, and everyone connects to that one, but this is not a Git concept, just a standard practice.

kataoka_nopeNoshishi • Jan 11 '23

Thanks for the comment!
As you point out, with Git, remote repository servers can be created without having to rely on a hosting service like github.
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I wrote this article this way because I wanted to emphasize my point about managing versions in a distributed manner.
Thanks for the very great feedback!!!

bibisixtynine • Jan 10 '23

Great Post ! Thanks ! Just one small remark, the animated gif are hard to follow on ios safari, because the frame rate is rather high for my slow brain, and the pause button... rewind the gif to the begining.

Terenze • Jan 8 '23

Thank you Kataoka. This is such a valuable piece of work that unpacks Git for those that are new to it and brings a fresh perspective to its understanding. Agree that just learning a set of commands doesn’t help you fully appreciate the power of Git. Good luck with you own version.