open-source-workshop

workshop materials for a "how to contribute to open source" workshop for researchers

What is version control?

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Hands up - who has heard of version control software?
What do you think it does?

Version control software

Version control software allows you to effectively “save” your work at important points in time and come back to any of the save points.

Some popular options:

WHY use it?

never mess up again.
okay - you will still mess up, but it means you can recover your mistakes.
it makes collaborating on code much easier
it provides offsite backups (so long as you push your work to a remote server). We’ve all heard stories of people who had their hard-drives corrupted or computers stolen before. With Git (or other version control) this never needs to happen again!

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