🔍 To examine 🏨 To leave and pay 🛒 To pay for items 💻 To get files

to check out

2 3.3

To get a copy of code from a shared project to work on

phrasal verb
/ˈtʃɛk aʊt/

Specialized

: hacer checkout

Check out the branch you want that applied to... git cherry-pick... you now have enough git-fu to cherry-pick.

Examples

The developer can easily check out the latest version of the code from the repository.
SVN is still useful for me for non-programming-related source control since I can check out individual files.

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The code base I work on takes over 3 hours to check out with SVN, while git clone takes less than 30 seconds.

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Check out bzr, darcs, or my favorite, Mercurial.

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You need to check out the branch where the new features are being developed.
Make sure to check out the project files before making any changes.

Surface Forms

check out infinitive

checked out past

checked out past participle

checking out present participle

checks out third person singular

Morphology

check + out

The computing sense of 'check out' (retrieve or switch code) is a domain-specific extension that is only partly linked to the constituents: it relies on senses of 'check' like 'take/inspect' or 'borrow' and a particle use of 'out' rather than the literal definitions given (pay; outdoors). Because the meaning requires metaphorical or technical transfer and likely prior exposure to version-control usage, a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituent meanings would not fully predict it.

Etymology

Check out in computing comes from libraries: people check a book out to borrow it, and programmers 'check out' files to take a copy and work on them. So it means 'to get a copy of project files to work on'.