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where code goes to be remembered, blamed, and occasionally forgiven.
means a repository is a managed storage location that tracks every version of a project's files so nothing is ever truly lost, only buried in history.
from from latin repositorium, a place for storing things — borrowed by computer science once developers realized code needed a memory as much as a home.
git inventionlinus torvalds built git in 2005, weekend project
biggest hostgithub hosts over 400 million repositories
nothing deletedcommit history keeps every mistake forever, technically
branching costcreating a branch costs nearly zero storage space