Inherently distributed in nature, every local commit made to a Git repo will make its way to the shared, central repository, as soon a developer issues a push command. But this isn't always ideal.

You can create a release to package software, along with release notes and links to binary files, for other people to use. Learn more about releases in our docs.

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