What is the difference between git push and git pull?

Question

I just stumbled over something peculiar today. I asked a co-worker at my summer job to help me set up a new remote git repo for my code and there was a lot of confusion about wh

Answer 1

In my view you can either let users push their commits to some repository that's considered to be "the master", or you let them send pull requests to a single user that has permission to modify said "master".

Github, for example, won't let non-contributors push to the repository, but will allow them to send pull requests, so that the contributors can integrate their changes.