level 5: teamwork * should not be shown about learngitbranching HOT 2 OPEN

I believe the *-sign is indicating what branch you have checked out and not that it's a remote repo. That said, remote repos are usually indicated by a stroked-outline. In fact that is what it appears after you run "git clone". For example, this is how it looks after playing with it:

You can see the remote repo at the right side and the checked out branch "foo" with the *-sign.

That said, initially the remove repo has a solid outline and thus would appear as local. I would say that is a bug.

This however is just like Remote-Level-1, where you also start out with only a remote repo, just like in Remote-Level-5.

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Thanks @FaithfulDev for explaining here (and on the other issue)!

So in the starting moment on the level, this is actually your local repository that exists, so it shouldn't have the outline. You run git clone to create the remote:

Now there's been some very valid feedback that git clone only really works if a remote repo already exists, so creating a remote repo by running clone doesn't really make sense. I totally agree with that, it just would be really hard to rework all of the lessons with that update.

I'd also say that git clone is the more common command to run before you start interacting with remote repositories, since most people are cloning an existing repo. So it makes sense spiritually why thats the command you run during these lessons

Hope that explains things

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