C Resources

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Long-term, you should understand more about what you are doing. Rote clicking in RStudio may be a short-term survival method but won’t work for long.

• Oh My Git! is a free and open source interactive game for learning Git. It’s very beginner friendly, using a graph to visualise the worktree. Lessons can be completed using a playing card interface in addition to the built-in command line, which is there for when users become more comfortable.

• The book Pro Git is fantastic and comprehensive.

• Git in Practice by Mike McQuaid is an more approachable book, probably better than Pro Git for most people starting out. Ancillary materials on GitHub.

• Git for Humans is a great set of slides by Alice Bartlett, originally delivered in 2016 at UX Brighton.

• GitHub’s own training materials may be helpful. They also point to many other resources

• Find a powerful Git client (chapter 8) if you’d like to minimize your usage of Git from the command line.

• Hadley Wickham’s book R Packages has an excellent chapter on the use of Git, GitHub, and RStudio in R package development. He covers more advanced usage, such as commit best practices, issues, branching, and pull requests.

• Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004947

• RStudio’s guide Version Control with Git and SVN

• The book Team Geek has insightful advice for the human and collaborative aspects of version control. It proposes Git strategies suited to different characteristics of teams.