Repository (version control)
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A Repository is a concept from distributed revision control
that refers to a data structure, usually stored on a server, that contains, among other things:
Distributed revision control
A distributed revision control system , distributed version control or decentralized version control keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.-Distributed vs...
that refers to a data structure, usually stored on a server, that contains, among other things:
- A set of files and directories.
- Historical record of changes in the repository.
- A set of commit objects.
- A set of references to commit objects, called heads.