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AKjDPG: Arbeitskreis junge DPG

AKjDPG 6: Hacky Hour - part 2 (joint session AGI/AKjDPG)

AKjDPG 6.1: Talk

Thursday, March 14, 2019, 14:00–15:00, U SR 124

Versioning and collaboration: git in research and beyond — •Johannes Hampp — Center for international Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen

An essential part of research is documenting results and making changes comprehensible. But wouldn't it also be great if we could easily keep multiple versions of files, track and review changes and have an efficient way to collaborate with others on our digital files?

In this part of the Hacky Hour, the powerful tool called 'git' will be showcased which can support us with exactly these tasks. Millions of developers world-wide have been using it for years. As we will see, it is not limited to work with source code of programms as it can handle any type of plain file you can think of.

But as they say: Great power also brings great complexity. This is also true for git. Therefore the focus will be on showcasing how we can use git in our daily work - as a single researcher, in collaboration with colleagues or working in (open) research groups.