Hi Katrin, Thank you so much for pointing out the new builtin tutorial of GitHub Desktop! I don't have MacOS or Windows at home, so I'll have to try the new tutorial on one of the university computers. I've noticed at our workshop last Friday that our users were diligent about their laptop setup and think any hands on active experience beforehand might go a long way to reinforcing their understanding at the workshop. A short tutorial would be super.
I've recently been teaching git from inside the bare bones RStudio git interface because we've been skipping the shell lesson when we teach R, and teaching the command line *and* git at the same time at one workshop, not surprisingly, made the lesson more confusing. Last week I observed a user accidentally install GitHub Desktop instead of the usual official Git installer, and noticed how GitHub desktop can take care of setting the your name and e-mail address. We can lose complete beginners during the initial "introducing yourself to git" setup and wouldn't mind trying to use the GitHub Desktop interface to save 15 minutes of the workshop by modifying the setup instructions of the workshop website for them to "introduce" themselves beforehand. Not to mention it could help work around a bug in RStudio for some versions of Windows where RStudio doesn't set the $HOME directory correctly; at least the git global settings can be saved at the right place and there's no dependency on fixing the $HOME directory in the RStudio spawned terminal before configuring the git global settings. Pariksheet On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:32 AM Leinweber, Katrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > > > I find that the Git and Github sections of a workshop generate a lot of > technical questions and errors, notably more than the other sections. > > So true! > > > […] If git and github could be taught in 5 minutes, I'm guessing it > would be included in DC material... > > https://desktop.github.com/ added a built-in tutorial recently. Has > anyone used this in a workshop? > > I'd be happy to receive some comments on that, because I'm planning to use > it in a few weeks. > > > Thanks and greetings! > Katrin > > ------------------------------------------ > The Carpentries: discuss > Permalink: > https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Taf5d034d6aa3c0cd-M3eaedaac61cacbdf79540293 > Delivery options: > https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Taf5d034d6aa3c0cd-Ma82c8adb9270540ca0303aea Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
