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repository

UK/ɹɪˈpɒz.ɪ.t(ə.)ɹɪ/US/ɹɪˈpɑ.zɪˌtɔɹ.i/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,374 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: repositories

A repository is the store holding a project's code and its history. A code repository, clone the repository, a public repository.

It keeps every version ever committed, so any past state can be recovered and any change traced to whoever made it, which is most of the point. The older sense is any store: a repository of knowledge, a repository for records.

Julian Kücklich · CC0

Definitions of repository

  1. 1nounrepositoryThe store holding a project's code and its history.B2+

    “She uploaded the project's code to a public repository so others could use it.”

repository is a store.

Where it comes from

Latin repositorium comes from reponere, to put back — re plus ponere, to place.

  1. Latin

    repositōrium

  2. Middle English

    reposytorye

  3. English, today

    repository

From Middle English reposytorye, from Latin repositōrium. by surface analysis, reposit + -ory.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Computing & Code

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repository in the wild

  • Department of Energy (DOE) reviewed options other than Yucca Mountain for a high-level waste repository.

    Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

  • The Arch User Repository (AUR) serves as a community-driven software repository for Arch Linux and provides packages not included in the official repositories and alternative versions of packages.

    Arch Linux

  • An institutional repository might also include other digital assets generated by academics, such as datasets, administrative documents, course notes, learning objects, academic posters or conference proceedings.

    Institutional repository

  • Deposit of material in an institutional repository is sometimes mandated by an institution.

    Institutional repository

  • A repository is stored on each computer in a standard directory with additional, hidden files to provide version control capabilities.

    Git

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.