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", I can't push my changes for others to review, or review pull requests. I can't update and pull in the latest changes, or checkout branches to help someone with a bug"

You can do all of these things if your colleague has that branch checked out - it does require remembering some pretty poorly-named CLI flags though!

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Maybe, I work remotely, most other people will be in the office. Pulling something from someone on the internal network might be... interesting.

It is another benefit of git, and one of the reasons I first moved to it (often did work on a robotic system, pulling an pushing new branches was a really nice way of moving code back and forth without committing to a central repo).

Git is great, and github is brilliant. I just wish it was more stable, because I would say that is a real issue at the moment.

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