Data storage for software revision control
Also known as version control repository · VCS · repo · revision control repository · source control repository · VCS repository
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In version control systems, a repository or repo is a data structure that stores either metadata or metadata and files for a set of files or directory structure. Depending on whether the version control system in use is distributed, like Git or Mercurial, or centralized, like Subversion, CVS, or Perforce, the whole set of information in the repository may be duplicated on every user's system or may be maintained on a single server. Some of the metadata that a repository contains includes, among other things, a historical record of changes in the repository, a set of commit objects, and a set of references to commit objects, called heads.