Remote
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What is Remote?
A version of your project that is hosted on the internet or network, used for syncing code and collaborating with other developers.
A remote is a shared repository stored on a server, such as GitHub or GitLab. Developers push their local commits to a remote to share them, and pull from a remote to receive updates made by their teammates. A repository can have multiple remotes, but the default primary remote is usually named "origin."
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit compares local commits with reachable remote history and warns when work has not reached the remote. See Git Tab & Recovery for details.
When you would use it
You interact with a remote whenever you need to collaborate, back up your code to the cloud, or deploy your application from a centralized server.
Common operations
- Pushing local code changes to GitHub for backup and sharing.
- Fetching the latest codebase updates from a team repository.