What is git and how does it work?

Slides for teaching the Carpentries "Version Control with Git" lesson.

Using these slides

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Rendering the slides locally

These slides are produced using Quarto.

In order to render them locally, you will need to install Quarto from https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/.

Quarto documents can be rendered in either:

• VSCode
• RStudio (> 2022.07.1+554)
• Jupyter
• Terminal

Full instructions can be found at the link above, however in brief:

• In RStudio, open index.qmd, above the document click Render
• In the terminal, run quarto render (or quarto preview)

These slides use a couple of extensions, which can be installed with:

quarto install extension quarto-ext/fontawesome
quarto install extension jmbuhr/quarto-qrcode

Contributing

Contributions and improvements are very welcome! Please fork this repo and make a pull request against the main branch. Please ensure that your document compiles successfully with the instructions above.