git for versioning

[Rustom Mody]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:47 PM, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> wrote:
> also sprach Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> [2008.07.30.0851 +0200]:
>> But how do I work on the base and have it push (yeah, that's not
>> exactly the word) its changes through the (branches for) Albert, Beth
>> and Foo?
>
> You push them to a central location and they fetch&merge from there,
> or they fetch from your repo and merge.

merge I can understand.
But why push and fetch? Its all on the local machine.