Summary

We have learnt how to use Git for collaborative development, how to work together on a project in a team. We got to know different collaborative workflows, different ways of setting up repositories for collaboration. Which one to use depends on circumstances: how large the team is, how diverse, and so on. This chapter focuses on repository-to-repository interaction; the interplay between branches and remote-tracking branches in those repositories is left for Chapter 6, Advanced Branching Techniques.

We have learnt how Git can help manage information about remote repositories (remotes) involved in the chosen workflow. We were shown how to store, view, and update this information. This chapter explains how one can manage triangular workflows, in which you fetch from one repository (canonical), and push to the other (public).

We have learnt how to choose a transport protocol if the remote server offers such choice, and a few tricks such as using foreign repositories as if they were native...