Glossary of synchronization of remote Git repositories

Convention-Over-Git
One of the approaches to automatically solve conflicts of synchronization between remote Git repositories.


fast-forward
safe, non-overwriting git fetch or push.

non-fast-forward
unsafe, forced & overwriting git fetch or push.

side
directly related one remote and many local git repositories. They are located on one side, i.e. in one company.

owner
owner of the side. A team that owns and uses their remote repository directly.

refs
git references, mostly such as branches and tags.

conventional refs
refs strictly separated by a convention and pertaining to different different sides. Each side owns its refs but can modify refs of another.

prefixed refs
This is a naming convention and an implementation of conventional refs by prefixes.
As an example:
"company1/some_feature", "company2-develop"
where the "company1/" and "company2-" are the conventional prefixes.

refspec
It specifies source and destination refs and can specify a non-fast-forward Git-fetch or -push by the plus "+" sign at the beginning.

synchronization interval
It is an interval between two synchronizations of remote Git repositories. Usually it is from one to three minutes.

reflog
Git Garbage Collector.

agentsync-agent
synchronization agent. Some implementation that doing all the work.

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