CVS as a centralized system has one place of origin. Git is a distributed versioning system, which means that each developer has its own copy of the repository. They have a private one and they can push changes to a public one or merge changes from other remotes. In larger organizations, it is common to have a central place to aggregate projects. With Git, there is no need to have a single central place where you store your changes. Each developer can have their own repository (or better repositories, that is, a private one in which they undertake development, and a public bare one where they publish parts that are ready), and they can pull/fetch from other repositories in a symmetric fashion.