play with the past & future

Using git you can access or edit previous versions of other people's contributions to the repo. Even something as simple as viewing the commit history lets you get some understanding of what another creator was thinking when they stored a new change to a file. Run this in a terminal window:

git log --name-status

You'll see something like this (with different data):

commit a4c1e970ef67d71094315444e6b2aa835dd3b69c Author: michaelpalumbo emailmichaelpalumbo@gmail.com Date: Thu Nov 14 09:57:10 2019 -0500

wave shaper can now control the buffer size

M module1.js

commit ae2c89248e869de5f6f73768537e5641b080cb20 Author: michaelpalumbo emailmichaelpalumbo@gmail.com Date: Thu Nov 14 09:52:00 2019 -0500

i'm trying to make a vari-delay by writing input values to an array. but after playing with the buffersize I realized i could make a waveshaper or some kind of crusher

M README.md M module1.js

....and play with the future!

What you say about your changes (and how often you commit them) helps participants in subsequent sessions to understand your process. It also foregrounds your rough drafts and as-yet unfinished ideas, so that they might be taken up as inspiration by someone else. We'll touch on how to commit changes in section 3.4. And I'll add more info on how to work with git in depth later this week.