repo

Defaulter's lost vehicle

Repo is short for repossession—the act of taking back property when a buyer defaults on payments.

Cars are most often repossessed: They came to repo his truck at 3 a.m.

A repo man recovers such property professionally.

In finance, repo also means repurchase agreement, a short-term borrowing arrangement where securities are sold with an agreement to buy them back.

In software development, repo is short for repository—a storage location for code: Clone the repo and submit a pull request.

git

commit

Bind to a course

  • branchDivision or woody limb
  • mergeCombine into unity
  • pullForce toward oneself

push · clone · fork · patch · issue · deploy · build · source · refactor · checkout

repossession

debt

Money owed another

foreclosure · auction · lender · borrower · lien · asset · seize · delinquency · liquidation · bankruptcy

storage

archive

Stored historical records

index · registry · vault · cache · library · backup · mirror · artifact · package · binary

versioning

release

To let go

baseline · snapshot · rollback · mainline · trunk · deprecate · staging · version · history · diff

Categories
Opposites
possession transfer direction

repopurchase

Goods obtained for payment

buy · acquisition · financing · receiving · take possession

voluntariness of surrender

repovoluntary surrender

Freely chosen submission

turn-in · trade-in · giving back · hand over · give back

ownership outcome

reporetention

Continued holding or possession

keeping · payoff · ownership · clear title · redemption

Phrases
Family

repository, repossess, repossession, repurchase, repossessed, repurchased, repossessing, repossesses, repurchases

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