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Lecture: Distributed source control
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One of the signature features of GIT is that it is distributed source control.
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And while it's the most popular and common type of source control these days when it
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came out, that was a revolutionary idea before that everyone just worked on a single
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repository in a single copy of the code and they all just work together. Maybe they'd have their own branch.
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But that was about it that required you to have access to that source control server and all sorts of things with Git that changes everything,
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can clone the repo do everything that you would want to do locally. And if you would like you can follow this git flow pr story that we talked
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about or even if you're just working in a team, you can just push back to that same repository. So everyone has their own local copy of the repository,
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add and commit. And those types of operations only work locally for you, of course, all the history of cloned,
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but something's changed in the meantime on the server,
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you won't know that until you do a fetch or a pull. So distributed source control talked about looks like this.