> And a local copy should be a local copy: sitting on my machine, allowing me to make changes willy-nilly, and then clean them up for review and commit. That's

> And a local copy should be a local copy: sitting on my machine, allowing me to make changes willy-nilly, and then clean them up for review and commit. That's exactly what Git is. You have your own local copy that you can mess about with and it's only when you sync with the remote that anyone else sees it.