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Published inNov 2023
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ISBN-139781803245669
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Damian Wojsław
Damian Wojsław
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz
Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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Local versus remote Git repositories

In Git, a repository is a collection of files and their history, as well as configuration files that are used to manage the repository. A repository can be either local or remote.

A local repository is a repository that is stored on your local machine. When you initialize a new Git repository using the git init command or when you clone an existing repository using the git clone command, you are creating a local repository. Local repositories are useful for working on projects when you don’t have an internet connection or when you want to keep a copy of the project on your own machine.

A remote repository is a repository that is stored on a server and accessed over the internet. When you push commits to a remote repository using the git push command, you are updating the remote repository with your local changes. Remote repositories are useful for collaborating with other developers, as they allow multiple people to work on the same...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803245669

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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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