I’m up for adding a git talk to the November meeting. I’m doing what I expect will be a shorter ansible talk about using it to configure your laptop, workstation, or whatever. I doubt it will be a two hour talk. I suspect that the main points will be covered in 30 to 45 minutes. Scott > On Oct 29, 2019, at 11:49 AM, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > > I have more of my own stuff on Gitlab. However, I'm interested in learning a bit > more about using git effectively in collaboration with others no matter which platform > (or their own site) they are using. The git paradigm is not trivial. For those of us > who use it sporadically there is some "relearning" each time. Recently I found I failed > to get a pull request to work properly. Still not sure why. I suspect there's other > members who are not power users of git who can benefit from some helpful cheat notes > and diagrams, as well as an overview of the web interface. > > JN > > > On 2019-10-29 10:22 a.m., Rick Leir wrote: >> Hi John and Robert >> There might be time for a Github vs Gitlab chat. Several notable projects went to Gitlab, possibly due to a long >> standing antipathy to Microsoft. I am at Github myself. >> Cheers >> Rick >> >> On October 29, 2019 10:07:57 AM EDT, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: >> >> I suspect Scott will get this via the list, but just in case ... >> >> Probably worth a little coordination so we have a smooth meeting. >> >> Thanks, JN >> >> On 2019-10-29 10:06 a.m., Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, J C Nash wrote: >> >> A discussion of using git (in particular on github) is one of the >> items for next week's meeting. I suggested it after realizing that I >> didn't manage a change properly with an R package I'm developing >> with a colleague I've never met but have been sharing development >> with for the last couple of years. >> >> Your input would be most welcome. >> >> >> well, if there's an open speaking slot, i can present what i was >> thinking of as a 35-40 minute "brown bag" lunchtime seminar. it's a >> little bit techie -- it explains the structure of Git's object store >> and how Git actually stores history using a combination of blobs, >> trees, commits and tags. >> >> if people are interested, i can give that one. >> >> rday >> >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >> To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >> To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org >> >> >> -- >> Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org