Question

A developer on your team frequently works from trains and flights where internet connectivity is unreliable. While offline, they still need to review the full project history, create commits, and switch between branches. A colleague argues this is impossible without a live connection to the central server. Which characteristic of Git makes the developer's offline workflow possible?

Accepted Answer

Git is a distributed version control system, so each clone contains the complete repository history and can commit and branch locally without a server connection.

Answer

Git caches a temporary copy of only the most recent commit, which is enough to keep working until connectivity returns.

Answer

Git requires a constant connection to GitHub, but GitHub Mobile stores an offline mirror that the developer can rely on instead.

Answer

Git uses a centralized model where the server pushes the latest history to the client automatically before it goes offline.