Version Control - Using Git

A presentation to teach engineers how to version control their code using Git.

Description

The slides are an intro to setting up and using version control (Git) within the M&A data analysis & software development environments.

Preface
- You will mess up
  - It's okay to mess up
    - ... git is stupid
- man git :
  
  GIT(1) Git Manual GIT(1)
  NAME
  git - the stupid content tracker
Setup
Installing Git & Friends
- Unix Terminal Emulator (Standing up Development Environment)
SSH Keys
- Generating Keys
- Starting SSH Agent
- Adding private key to agent
- Adding public key to repository
- Testing connection
SSH Config
Git Config
- username / email
2 Methods - Getting Started
Initializing a Repo
- Brand New Repo
- Preexisting Repo
R Project + RStudio + Git setup
Concepts
- 3 trees
- git init
- git add
- git commit
- git push
- git pull
  - git fetch
  - git merge
- git reset
- git revert
- git tag
- Git Large File Storage (LFS)
Demo project w/ common tools for different types of R projects
- R Project
- renv
- lintr & stylr
- doc-toc
- npm scripts (don't even need a Node.js project)