Monthly Archives: December 2015

Git – Local Commands

And remote and local copy of a repository

Git is an extremely powerful Distributed Version Control System. And by saying that, I’m getting straight to business.

The “Distributed” part means that there is no central repository on which all developers are working. On the contrary – every developer has a clone of some publicly available (whether on the internet, or at work) repository. The “central” becomes just a place to share your work and pull others’ changes.

This is one of the features that make working with Git very handy. It is also one that people often don’t realize. Continue reading