What is origin in Git, and can a repo have more than one remote?
origin is the default name Git gives to the remote you cloned from. It is just a nickname for a URL, and a repository can have many remotes, such as origin and upstream for a fork.
Explain it simply
origin is a contact name saved against a phone number. You could have saved it as 'Home'; Git simply uses origin by default when you clone.
A remote is a named URL. git remote -v lists them. A second one is common when you work on a fork: origin is your copy and upstream is the original project. You then git fetch upstream to receive its changes. Remotes are added with git remote add name url and renamed or removed with git remote rename and git remote remove.
Example
git remote -v
# origin https://github.com/me/aitapri.git (fetch)
git remote add upstream https://github.com/team/aitapri.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/mainWhat to say in the interview
"origin is the default alias for the remote URL I cloned from. A repository can have several remotes, for instance origin for my fork and upstream for the original repository, and I fetch from each by name."