What does git remote mean?

Question

What does remote mean? When cloning a repository located at a central location, aren\'t we creating its remote version?

When I execute the command

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Answer 1

A remote in git is basically a bookmark for a different repository from which you may wish to pull or push code.

The bookmarked repository may be on your local computer in a different folder, on remote server, or it may even be the repository itself ( I haven't tried this ) but the simplest analogy is a bookmark.

The repository doesn't even have to be a version of your repository, it may even be a completely unrelated repository.