~vijaykumar

Python user’s in Chennai, met again on 24th November. We had about 13 people participating in the meet this time. We discussed about regular expressions, GUI programming with GTK, and a web application development project.

A remote is a convenient way of referring to a remote repository, so that the user doesn’t have to type the entire URL again and again.

Moreover since git is a distributed, the user might want to refer to serveral remote repositories, to obtain changes from. Remotes let the user to conveniently name these different remote repositories.

When a project is cloned, a remote called origin is automatically created. The remote refers to the repository from which the project was cloned.