Git and continuous integration

Question

After using SVN for years I'm finally trying to learn Git. The tutorial explains how with Git you commit to your local repo for much of the time. I thought Git was supposed to make continuous integration easier, but if you're committing to a local repo for most of the time, isn't that tantamount to working in isolation and having more conflicts when merging with the central repo?

Answer 1

Git doesn't impose any particular way of working on you. Most Git commands work on your local repository only, with only the push/pull/fetch commands actually doing things with a remote repository.

In particular, you can still push to a remote repository just as often as you would do a remote commit with Subversion.