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A code repository is a centralized location for storing and organizing shared access to program code. In addition to performing the functions of an archive and library, a repository serves as a version control system.
It also includes change management tools such as revision history, code reviews, branching, and merging capabilities. This allows developers to collaborate on a project by tracking all content writing service iterations and maintaining multiple versions of the codebase in parallel. Specialists are able to work on different versions of the code and merge all changes independently.
A repository gives programming teams the confidence that their code is always backed up and can be easily rolled back to a previous version if needed. Repositories also allow code sharing, making it easier to contribute to open-source projects or collaborate with other developers.
Repositories can be integrated with continuous integration and delivery systems (CI/CD, transcript) to automate the process of creating, testing, and deploying software changes. This helps ensure thorough testing and rapid deployment of code changes. Popular repository platforms are Git, SVN, and Mercurial. All of them are widely used by software development teams around the world, including Russia.
YOUR OWN REPOSITORY
Following the start of the well-known events in the spring of 2022, one of the largest global repositories, the default choice for many programmers and organizations around the world, GitHub, began banning accounts of Russian organizations that fell under US sanctions.
About a year later, this policy began to extend to private accounts of programmers from our country, including those participating in various open-source communities.
All this led to the Russian Ministry of Digital Development proposing to transfer 1.3 billion rubles from the Rosinfocominvest fund (created by the Russian government in 2007 to invest in IT startups) to create a national repository of program code to replace GitHub and other global public repositories.
The application period for the creation of a domestic repository ended on April 1, 2023 – approximately one year is allotted for the development and launch of the project
It is assumed that after the launch the service will provide users with a set of free (basic) and paid (advanced) services. The proceeds will go to the further development of the national repository.
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