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It's like a library: you join the library, and they give you a membership ticket.
You want a book, you hand it and the ticket to the librarian and she records that you have it and you can take it away to read.
When you are finished, you return the book and she records against your ticket that you returned the book.

Getting the book is called "checking out", returning it is called "checking in". These terms have been used for hundreds - possibly thousands! - of years, and they refer to historical usage when the identity of the book was physically checked against the records and your library ticket.

When source control was invented, these terms were adopted for pretty much the same events: to get a copy of the code, you "checked out" the branch. When you are done modifying, you "checked in" your changes.

English can be a strange language, and you shouldn't take technical terms too literally! Laugh | :laugh:
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