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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Cloning

Posted by Adam Caouette
Adam Caouette
841 Points

I tried to provide feedback on the GIT Cloning video but the submit button doesn't seem to work on Firefox, Mac OS...

Here's the feedback I was trying to give:

I am learning this for the first time, and I think there's a real gap here explaining what exactly "remote" means... I get what cloning does, but there's a lot of talk about having to set up a manual remote, that "is associated" with a repo, and "allows repos to talk to each other". what does this mean? Does this mean that if a change happens in my original repo that the clone will know about it? Does this happen only if it's had a remote manually set up? I thought this was really confusing. Thanks.

1 Answer

Felix Salazar
Felix Salazar
3,879 Points
Felix Salazar
Felix Salazar
3,879 Points

Remote, as the video says: "Normally when people talk about remote repositories, they're talking about a repository that's on another computer that they have access to over the network. Hence the word remote. This doesn't have to be the case, though. To Git, remote really just means somewhere else." Remote just really state the origin of the cloned repos: another repo on the same computer (as we see on the example), another repo on a local server, another repo on a remote server, etc.

When you associate repositories, is just for them to exchange pulls and pushes. I think you have probably understanded better seeing the next video, where they explain what push and pull are and how they work.

Hope this helps.

Adam Caouette
Adam Caouette
841 Points

Thanks Felix... it did become more clear as I continued to watch, and your response explains it well, too. Cheers! -Adam