Git push directly to another workstation

You don’t need GitHub to work with git on multiple computers, and you don’t even need a git remote set up to do it. Sometimes I’m working on some code that is incomplete, or is speculative, or there’s another reason that I don’t want to push it to the remote branch yet, but I need to swap from my desktop to my laptop or vice versa. Git is a distributed version control system, but I think people often forget what that implies. A git repository can be as simple as a directory available via ssh, which means that your other computer is already a git repository as long as you can ssh to it. Furthermore, you don’t have to go through the ceremony of setting your other computer up as a named git remote; if you can ssh to it, you can access it directly using a properly-constructed URL: git push ssh://mylaptop.local/~/path/to/repo You can do this for pull, push, fetch, and any other command where you’d normally use a named remote. There are some caveats: The remote directory has to have a git…