AI engineering glossary · Command line Git

What is remote?

Remote: A named reference to a copy of the repository hosted elsewhere, such as on GitHub, that you can fetch from and push to. The usual default name is origin. A repository can have several.

Level: beginnerTopic: Command line Git

Remote: an example

git remote add origin https://github.com/asha/project.git links your local repository to the hosted one.

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Where you learn it

Remote is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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