In stephlocke/Rtraining: Training Materials on R

Source Control

Commandment

Thou shalt source control all the things

Why?

Coz reasons

• a backup system for your code
• a means of tracking why you made changes
• a way of sharing code
• a system for multiple people to work safely
• another potential way to deploy code manually
• options for automated testing and deployment
• audit trails

Core concepts

• Centralised vs Distributed
• Repository
• Branch
• Commit

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• My intro to source control
• Git cheatsheet
• Git book

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