You can catch up later by asking me or reading:

• Slides. Why and how to use git: Git for Humans
• Book chapter. Initial setup and overview: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/git.html.

• Book. All, with a friendly style: http://happygitwithr.com/

• tutorials/articles/Learning_road_map.docx

Haven't installled git yet? Sit next to someone that has it.

• With dropbox

• With Git

  • Express why things change

  • Try new things savely

  • Collaborate

• From RStudio.

• From a GUI* ( Recommended Git clients).

• From a shell such as bash.

• Touch base by giving hands up on this issue How many people installed git?

Upload a text file.

Edit the file

Download the file

Open a new repo on GitHub.

Write a readme file.

Then clone the repo into an RStudio project.

Change something, on the read me file; ten revert the changes.

Change something else; then commit the changes.

Explore history.

Push

Fork forestr/tutorials into your <your-account>/tutorials.

Clone forestr/tutorials into an RStudio project.

Change something locally, e.g. README. Then push.

Confirm the change in your fork.

Request to pull your your fork into forestr/tutorials

In your account, name a new repo as in your computer

Follow instructions from GitHub (require the shell)