Version control with Git: Instructor Notes

Checklists

On the day

• Is your terminal clear from the back of the room?
  • Use a large font
  • Use black-on-white colour scheme
  • Set a minimal shell prompt PS1="$ "
  • Also set a larger font size in your text editor
• Don’t create the directory on the P-drive
  • Explain to learners about the drop outs
  • No need to copy directory at end of the day – it’s on GitHub!

Ahead of time

• Is Git installed?
• Which text editors are installed?
  • How do you change the font size?

Cut-down version

For teaching as part of a Software Carpentry workshop:

• 1 Intro
• 2 Tracking changes
• 3 History and differences
• 4 Commit advice
• 5 Branching
• ? 6 Undoing changes (if there’s time)
• 8 Remote repositories (just push local repo to GitHub)

Example paper

I use variations on this paper when delivering the course.