Re: Question re. git remote repository

Hi David, now we are going to have some confusion here, two David Langs on the 
list :-)

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Lang, David wrote:

We're just in the process of investigating a versioning tool and are very 
interesting in git. We have one question we're hoping someone can answer. In 
regards to the repositories, I think I understand correctly that each 
developer will have a local repository that they will work from, and that 
there will also be a remote repository (origin) that will hold the original 
version of the project.

It appears from the limited reading I've done that the remote repository must 
be hosted at github.com. Is this the case? Ideally we'd prefer to simply 
create our remote repository on a drive of one of our local network servers. 
Is this possible?

Git is peer-to-peer, the 'origin' is just the default to pull from. It can be 
hosted on any machine that you have access to.

A typical case is that you designate one person (or a small group of people) 
to oversee your master repository, and that person decides when and what to pull 
there from the developers.

This gives you a chance to insert code review, tests, etc between what the 
developers produce in their local repository and what you then bless as the 
authoritative 'released' version of the code.

However, this master repository is just a matter of convention, it is possible 
to use any repository as the 'origin', changing it is just a config change away.

David Lang