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Hello, Please someone explain to me exactly what remote git is (in simple language) And what is its role and why should we use it? The next question what is (origin)?thanks
"remote" is just some git repository not on your computer (e.g. on GitHub).
"origin" is the repository you cloned your repository from (e.g. the one on your GitHub).
"master/main" is just the name of the default branch. It's called "master/main" because generally it's the branch that represents production code, and all other branches come from and generally eventually rejoin.
@benjamin1509 I do not understand what you mean by this sentence : "remote" is just some git repository not on your computer
Not sure where "gate" comes in. But a git remote is a remote repository where the files are stored. Often people use github.com for this (I do so myself). So you tell git, that when pushing or pulling changes, that remote is the server that has the data. And origin is just a name we give the main one. In theory you can have more than one remote if needed. When I migrated to github myself, I set up multiple remotes to get my data in sync, and then when I was done I set github to origin
@Sinnbeck maybe he's thinking git but typed gate, sometimes we feel like we're flying and respond differently from what we think.
@benjamin1509 Ah yeah nice catch :)
@Sinnbeck What I have found so far is that: When we create a repository, there is no remote git. When we clone a repository There is a remote called (origin), My question is, what does remote mean? And why would we need a remote? And what is the use of it completely? In some projects, I have seen several remotes, why is it like this? I am very new to git
@johnDoe220 how do you connect/interact with the television if you don't have a remote? the same idea goes here.
@johnDoe220 Lets start with a new repository as an example.
You create a new one and there is no remote.. All is good. You work alone and track changes locally in git.
@Sinnbeck What an explanation, you covered it all!
@benjamin1509 Thanks :)
@Sinnbeck So you mean to access the repository from anywhere and synchronizing it with the repository on the personal computer Is the remote used? (In fact, it is similar to a connection from local to a cloud space). If so, why do some projects have multiple remotes? What does it mean? But what is origin?
@johnDoe220 Yes a remote is as the name implies, remote (eg. not local). Most use github.com or gitlab.com or similar. (those are git servers with a nice webinterface on top).
And I think i already answered both of those above ? Lets just quickly cover them again
origin which pointed to gitolite and remote which pointed to github.com. And after I was done, I changed origin to point to github.com and delete the other remote.origin is just a name that we have picked as the default name for the default remote. We could have called it joe, but someone decided that origin was a better name. If you pull a remote repo it will automatically be stored as origin as this is the default name. You could rename it, if you for some reason wanted (I wouldnt recommend it)@johnDoe220 If you want the complete explanation you can go and check it here.
i recommend taking a git tutorial, having git knowledge is pretty much mandatory these days
as for your question
Imagine you want to upload to code to Google Drive because you fear that your computer may die and you lost your code. Or have someone download that code and review from GGDrive
Thats it, now you have 2 code folders: one one your own machine (called local) and one on the GGDrive (called remote)
only we use github, gitlab,... instead of gg drive
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