Introducing repositories (repos)

Repos are a version control system in a centralized storage location, holding all the files, directories, and version history of a project. A repository allows multiple developers to collaborate on a project, keeping track of changes made to the project’s files over time, which is useful for projects with multiple data scientists and developers. It stores all the different versions of the files, along with metadata such as the author, timestamp, and description of each change.

There are many version control options that organizations might use. Some popular options include GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps repositories, and AWS CodeCommit.

It’s important to note that there are multiple phases of version control. The major three are repos, a working directory, and a staging area. We’ve already explained what a repo is, but what are the other two?

A working directory is the directory on your local machine where you...