git practice

[SijiaFang]

@cecileane @tzuhsianghung

Comments for the course

This course is exactly what I need for my research, I had lots of troubles communicating with my collaborator last year since GitHub is totally a new thing to me, now I understand how to make communication easier and more efficiently.

Things learned that I think is useful

• Git command with shell. Especially the git status command. Before the course, I only know how to use R to pull and push, and have no idea what to do when I meet a conflict
• Find and edit certain lines or strings with grep, sed and so on. Although I currently may not need them in my research, but I believe it will be useful when I need to deal with some real data.

Things I would like to learn

• How to run local programs on a server. I heard this all the time but never did it. It would be good to learn more about that part.
• How does distributed computing work. I have known this idea for a long time but never get the chance to seriously learn it and. It would be great to learn this and maybe actually try it.

[cecileane]

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just a quick note to say that binary files (like pdf's) are not tracked well by git: they are not text-based.