Reference

Glossary

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• Repository (repo): a project under version control
• History: timeline of changes to your repo
• Clone: make a local copy of a repo, including its history
• Commit: a labelled set of specific change to files in your repo
• Push / pull: synchronise history with another copy of your repo
• Working tree: the current state of your project and files on disk
• Track: keep under version control
• Branch: a set of changes in your repository, being tracked in parallel to your ‘main’ branch
• Merge: to bring changes from one branch into another
• Conflict: a situation where competing changes have been made to some part of your repository
• Pull Request: a way of reviewing, labelling, and discussing a merge before it takes place
• Fork: make a copy linked to the original repo