Gitting to Know You

Four things learned today, Oct 1, 2013

  1. When working in Github: “commit often.” Commit every time you’ve made a substantial change. Each time that you commit, you create a version that can be rolled back to in the future.

  2. The description field is Optional when you commit. When you are committing something that might change the character or function of the site however, you should provide a reasonably full description of what you have done and why.

  3. The GUI is user friendly but it can only take you so far. At some point we will need to use command language. We will learn more about this later.

  4. Github allows you to create a virtual machine inside your real computer.

John L. Tofanelli

Author: John L. Tofanelli

John is Columbia’s Librarian for British and American History and Literature. His research interests include literature and religion in 18th- and 19th- century Great Britain, textual criticism, and book history. He has enjoyed the chance to explore the early architectural history of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.