Eli5 the concepts of ‘Upstream’ and ‘Downstream’ within the context of software development.
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The “stream” is a flow of ownership or authority. If you clone a remote git repo to your machine, your copy is downstream of the remote, and the remote is upstream of your local copy. The upstream is where you get the information from, e.g. when doing `git fetch`. Like when you get water from a river, the water you get comes from “upstream”.
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