Comment by globular-toast
1 hour ago
A "local remote" is a contradiction. Unless the remote is on a different disk you are just wasting space. Even then the point of remotes is for sharing, not for backup/redundancy.
1 hour ago
A "local remote" is a contradiction. Unless the remote is on a different disk you are just wasting space. Even then the point of remotes is for sharing, not for backup/redundancy.
What if you have a few local machines you’re using for development, and want to keep them in sync? This method allows that single central repo without having to bounce all the code through a cloud hosting service.
OK, different meanings of word "local". TFA uses "local" to mean the same machine, not the same local network.
The remote can be a shared directory that multiple users have access to, and the working directory is private where each user only has private read + write access.