Version Control with Git

Why learn version control?

• Allows for collaborators to work in parallel.
• Eliminates the need to come up with file names to indicate a “final” versus a “final-final” file version.

Install Git

For installation directions please refer to the Setup, overview, and introduction page.

Lessons

• A quick overview of Version Control
• Start off by registering a github account at https://github.com
• Use your github user name and email to config git. Open a Shell/Command line window from RStudio menu Tools/Shell…, and modify and run the following commands:

git config --global user.name "Liming Wang"
git config --global user.email "lmwang+datascience@gmail.com"
git config --global color.ui "auto"

• Creating a repository
• Tracking changes
• Exploring history
• Ignoring things
• Remotes in GitHub
• Collaborating
• Conflicts
• Hosting

Optional lessons

• Open Science
• Licensing
• Citation
• Cache credentials

Resources

1. Happy Git with R
2. try Git
3. Pro Git, a book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub