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Repository

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/rɪˈpɑːzətɔːri/nounCore term

In software engineering, repository means: A storage place for a project's code and its full history of changes, usually managed with Git and often hosted online.

In Turkish: depo, kod deposu

How it is used

Almost always shortened to 'repo' in speech. You clone, fork, create and archive repositories. Teams talk about 'the backend repo', 'a private repo' and a 'monorepo', which holds many projects in one repository.

Example sentences

  1. The deployment scripts live in a separate repository.

  2. I can't push to the repository. Do I need write access?

Common collocations

  • clone a repository
  • private repository
  • public repository
  • create a repository
  • cloneTo download a full copy of a remote repository, including its history, to your own computer so that you can work on it.
  • commitA saved snapshot of changes in a repository, with a short message that explains what was changed and why. Also used as a verb: to commit your changes.
  • pushTo send your local commits to a shared remote repository, so that other people and automated systems can see them.
  • branchA separate line of development in a repository, where you can work on changes without affecting the main code until you are ready to merge.
  • codebaseAll the source code that makes up a project or product, seen as one whole, including its structure, style and history.

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