Example situation: you have a small data set or writing project in a text/CSV/markdown file that you work on over time, and want to track changes and have a remote backup (relatedly, we probably need a what is version control)
Things to cover
we assume you know why you want/need to use version control
we assume you know how to get to your terminal/command prompt and run commands
we assume you're working on a single computer (so you can't get merge conflicts)
we won't cover branching/merging/pull requests here
install git, make a github account
create a repo on github (private), explain the instructions they give when you make a repo
add your file, make a commit with a message
push your commit to the remote
make more changes, commit and push again
view history/file at older versions in github, view diff of what you just did
if your computer is toast, recover onto a new machine by clone the work you did from github
Example situation: you have a small data set or writing project in a text/CSV/markdown file that you work on over time, and want to track changes and have a remote backup (relatedly, we probably need a what is version control)
Things to cover
we assume you know why you want/need to use version control
we assume you know how to get to your terminal/command prompt and run commands
we assume you're working on a single computer (so you can't get merge conflicts)
we won't cover branching/merging/pull requests here
install git, make a github account
create a repo on github (private), explain the instructions they give when you make a repo
add your file, make a commit with a message
push your commit to the remote
make more changes, commit and push again
view history/file at older versions in github, view diff of what you just did
if your computer is toast, recover onto a new machine by
clonethe work you did from github