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where code goes to be remembered, blamed, and occasionally forgiven.
means a repository is a managed storage location — usually version-controlled — that holds a project's files and every change ever made to them.
from from latin repositorium, a place for storing things, borrowed by software in the 1970s-80s as version control systems needed a word for their central vaults of truth.
git's trickevery clone is a full copy of history
oldest survivingsome cvs repos date to the 1980s
github scalehosts over 400 million repositories
monorepo debateone giant repo versus thousands of tiny ones