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by eru 1340 days ago
When working on open source software and collaborating via public GitHub, you can almost forget that git is a distributed version control system.

But in the restricted corporate setups you describe, git's distributed nature shines.

They can lock down internal GitHub as much as they want to, but that won't keep you from making local commits, or exchanging commits directly with your coworkers while developing.