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Repo

Short for repository — the folder, usually tracked by Git, that holds a project's code and its full history of changes. AI coding agents read and edit repos.

Origin · no single documented coiner

'Repository' was used in version-control tools for decades; the short form spread with Git (Linus Torvalds, 2005) and GitHub (2008). No single coiner.

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