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Remote

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Remote usually means a computer or server that’s not physically located with you at the moment. It’s often used in the context of version control systems, where it refers to a branch of code that exists on a server. You work on your code changes locally (like on your laptop), and then push them over the web to the remote branch so other developers can see and use them, or so that you can deploy them into service.

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