Git Intro for Librarians: Instructors' Guide


Tips and Tricks


Making a handout

Librarians like handouts. To make a handout for this lesson, adapt/print from http://data-lessons.github.io/library-git/reference/.


General notes on Git

Using a software tool to handle the versions of your project files lets you focus on the more interesting/innovative aspects of your project.

Overall

Version control might be the most important topic we teach, but Git is definitely the most complicated tool. However, GitHub presently dominates the open software repository landscape, so the time and effort required to teach fundamental Git is justified and worthwhile.

Because of this complexity, we don’t teach novice learners about many interesting topics, such as branching, hashes, and commit objects.

Instead we try to convince them that version control is useful for researchers working in teams or not, because it is

Teaching Notes