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| ======Internal Localhost server====== | ======Internal Localhost server====== | ||
| - | When //Git Winch// starts running, it also starts as tiny localhost webserver. You may wonder what is that used for? | + | When //Git Winch// starts running, it also starts as tiny localhost webserver |
| - | Well, it acts as a bridge between the coordination | + | Firstly, understand what a localhost |
| - | ----- | + | We have coded this in-built localhost webserver so that it does NOT have any capability to pick up any data from your computer. Hence, there is no question of any misuse of your data or privacy due to this localhost webserver. |
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| + | This localhost webserver acts as a bridge between the coordination server used by //Git Winch// and your computer. As you keep using //Git Winch// this localhost server is //pinged// from the web-app for various activities such as starting a //build// process on your machine depending on various //Git Push// conducted by someone in your team. | ||
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| + | **NOTE:** To maximize the use of //Git Winch// make sure that you do //NOT// close the web-app that is started when you login to your account. Why? Because it is that web-app which will communicate instructions to the localhost webserver, due to which additional functionality gets done...such as the //build// process. | ||
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