Remote repositories

Lessons in this group, roughly in build order:

• what-is-a-remote — A remote is a named bookmark for another copy of the repository (a URL plus a fetch/push refspec), letting…
• cloning-git-clone — git clone copies a remote repository’s full object database to a new local directory, then wires up…
• adding-and-managing-remotes-git-remote — git remote is the command to list, add, rename, re-URL, and remove the named remotes stored in .git/config
• fetching-git-fetch — git fetch downloads new objects and updates remote-tracking branches (origin/*) from a remote without…
• pulling-git-pull — git pull is a convenience command that runs git fetch followed by an integrate step (merge by default, or…
• pushing-git-push — git push uploads your local commits to a remote and updates the remote’s branch to point at them — the…
• tracking-branches-and-upstream — An upstream is the link between a local branch and a remote-tracking branch (e.g
• https-vs-ssh-authentication — The two transports Git uses to reach a hosted remote: HTTPS (token auth) and SSH (key-pair auth)