Chapter 7 Working with Remote Repositories

Now we’ve covered everything you need to work on your own. However, the distributed in distributed version control means you’ll normally be working with other people on your projects.

This chapter is about how to interact with projects on remote repositories. You’ll learn the following:

  • What the different types of remote repositories are

  • How to create a copy of a remote repository

  • How to stay up-to-date with remote changes

  • How to share your changes by pushing to a remote repository

  • How to work with remote branches

  • How to add new remote repositories

I’m going to deviate for a minute. Instead of having cloning instructions up front, I’ve added the instructions in Section 7.2, Cloning ...

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