Using Git Without GitHub

GitHub has become so synonymous with version control that it’s easy to forget Git itself is completely decentralized.

While hosted platforms like GitHub are great for collaboration and open-source distribution, if you simply want version control and remote backups for personal machines, it’s surprisingly simple to manage Git without GitHub or third-party servers. If you have a Git repository on one machine with SSH access, you can clone and push directly over an ssh:// URL without any special server software required.