The keeping of work without being asked. It protects against the loss nobody plans for.

The recorded steps of a repo's history, spoken plural — each one a promise written down; they ride KP1's word alone.

Represented in discrete steps rather than continuous ones. What can be copied without loss.

To put a thing into place so it can be used. Installation is setup that persists.

To continue past what would have ended it. Also to write a thing down so it survives the session.

To put beyond loss. Both rescuing a thing and committing it to keeping.