Few questions about Visual Studio 2015 Git : <p>I started to use Git provided in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. My team consists of only me. My needs are simple: to have history of changes, and possibility to revert them. Visual Studio created automatically local repository in my solution directory. My questions are:</p>

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<li><p>Is it valid way to use only local repository? Will it create any problems when I never set up remote repository?</p></li>
<li><p>Is .git folder created in solution directory independent? I mean, does it have complete git information, so when I copy to another directory or machine, it will have its own full state?</p></li>
<li>In case of backups, will be there any difference between: a) simply setting a 3rd party program to backup whole solution directory to remote server. b) setting up server for remote repository, and backuping by commiting changes.</li>
<li><p>Why .git folder is hidden?</p></li>
<li><p>How can I hide field showing number of unpublished commits, which is located on the right bottom in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2? If I will never set up remote server, this number will increase to huge numbers, and reminds me about elapsing time.</p></li>
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