• Software that records changes you make to files over time
  • Manage different versions of files
  • Recover old files, keep track of file changes
  • Collaborate with others on shared files

• Software that records changes you make to files over time
  • Manage different versions of files
  • Recover old files, keep track of file changes
  • Collaborate with others on shared files

• Put more intuitively, version control takes a snapshot in time (called a 'commit') of all the files in one of your folders (called 'repositories')
  • Visualise changes to your files over time
  • Look at the differences between file versions
  • Record who changed files, and what they changed

• Organise files and avoid having to 'save as' multiple versions
  • analysis_1.R
  • analysis_2.R
  • analysis_FINAL.R
  • analysis_FINAL_no_really_this_time.R

• Have a clear history of what you have done, when, and why (through commit comments)

• Never worry about losing your data, analysis, or writing when integrating with GitHub

• Transparent record of data collection, analysis, and writing
• Record publicly available on GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab

• GitHub repository can be copied, reproduced, and discussed
• git and GitHub can track individual contributions to a project

By the end of today you will be able to use git with GitHub and GitKraken to manage your projects with version control

• Understand key concepts of version control
• Perform basic tasks in GitHub and GitKraken
  • Staging and committing files
  • Pushing to and pulling from GitHub
  • Branching, merging, & resolving merge conflicts

Discuss, share, and get additional help by raising an issue in the version_control repository on the Stirling Coding Club GitHub organisation.

• Free to download and use
• Easy GitHub integration
• Graphical user interface
• Visualisation of repository

Accompanying notes to these slides are available in the version_control repository, and include instructions for using the command line interface, and for editing directly in GitHub.