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Where your code lives, dies, and gets blamed on git blame.

means A stored collection of files (usually code) with a tracked history of changes, typically managed by a version control system like Git.

from Short for 'repository,' from Latin 'repositorium' — a place for storing things, from 'reponere,' to put back or lay up. The word did quiet duty for centuries meaning any storehouse or archive, then got drafted into computing to describe where software projects and their history live, and got clipped to 'repo' the way programmers shorten everything they touch more than twice.

short for
repository, but nobody has time for that
true ownership
whoever last force-pushed to main
also means
reclaiming a car you stopped paying for
golden rule
commit often, regret less
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