Remote
Pointer to the remote repository on the server.
Why is it good?
Linking your local Git repository with remote allows you to:
- backup your source code on the server
- continue work on the same project from any PC with access to the server
- share your work with others
For the purpose of this book, the remote repository will be a repository on the GitHub.
This will allow you to work on the same project from any PC with an Internet connection.
One or many?
Remote repository and remote are two different terms.
Typically, for your private projects, you will have one remote, called always origin, does not matter how the remote repository is really named.
Should you work on fork of an existing project, you will have two remotes:
origin, which is your remote forked versionupstream, which is the original repository from which you forked