Comments on git hands-on session

[ThierryO]

Refers to #20

• useRs will prefer to use git in RStudio. I expect that a large number of INBO git users will be useRs
• suggesting vim as editor is rather evil
• I'd start teaching based on user workflow maximising the use of the GUI in favor of the command line when the workflow permits
  • RStudio workflow for useRs
  • GitHub desktop for non R users
  • pure command line for code junkies
• I'd create pull requests only online
• update local master via git pull instead of git fetch + merge
• mention the alias only in the code junkie workflow. It is distracting for the beginners.
• RStudio allows you to commit a selection of changes in a file. That is handy to split changes over several commits.
• recommend a branching scheme depending on the complexity of the project.

[stijnvanhoey]

I'll certainly take these considerations into account for a (INBO-only) follow-up course. As the public of today is a mixed audience with a large number of command-line-rs, the setup of today is to provide both options for each action. I already agree that we probably better split GUI and non-GUI in different manuals as you suggest (Rstudio, Github Desktop and cmd).

[stijnvanhoey]

Most adaptations were taken into account in the Rstudio version of the course material in https://github.com/inbo/git-course closing here, further discussion can be done in that repo