Exactly: don't tackle remotes until you've learned the fundamentals of git, otherwise you'll be stuck with a big brain twister. If you start dealing with remotes right off the bat, like I initially did, you'll find git very frustrating and weird to work with. I kept treating git like it was svn, and just didn't get it. If you learn git without remotes first, the way git handles remotes will make way more sense to you once you finally explore that functionality.