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> I don't need a server?

You do, an SSH server needs to be running on the remote if you want to ssh into it, using your ssh client - the `ssh` command on your laptop. It's just not a http server is all.

You start that server using the `sshd` [systemd] service. On VPSs it's enabled by default.

Git supports both http and ssh as the "transport method". So, you can use either. Browsers OTOH only support http.

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Exactly! Only now the dots connected. Thank you!!

Edit: hey this is really exciting. For a long time one of the reasons I've loved git (not GitHub) is the elegance of being a piece of software which is decentralized and actually works well. But I'd never actually used the decentralized aspect of it, I've always had a local repo and then defaulted to use GitHub, bitbucket or whatever instead, because I always thought I'd need to install some "git daemon" in order to achieve this and I couldn't be bothered. But now, this is so much more powerful. Linus Torvalds best programmer alive, change my mind.

And in general, any daemon that manipulates files can be replaced by ssh (or ftp) access and a local program.

And most things are files.

BTW, a nice example of this general concept is Emacs' TRAMP mode. This is a mode where you can open and manipulate files (and other things) on remote systems simply by typing a remote path in Emacs. Emacs will then simply run ssh/scp to expose or modify the contents of those files, and of course to run any required commands, such as deleting a file.