On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:53:35AM -0500, Pat Schloss wrote:
> … one of the strengths that I feel formal version control wins with
> vs. dropbox is that I can rm -rf my_project and do a pull from
> github and get my project back.
I think the main strength of distributed version control over
My way of convincing my lab to use version control was showing them how if
we introduced a bug into the software running our experiment, I could have
the code back to the way it was the previous day in less than 30 seconds.
That plus being able to upgrade all of the experimental rigs to new
Excerpts from Davide Del Vento's message of 2016-02-28 20:45:09 +0100:
> For the rest, I agree with the whole group that Martin Bahr's views
> are pretty chauvinist and out of date.
i asked davide about this and we realized that my quote of uncle bob was
misunderstood.
first of all, what davide
> Students (both those that have worked with servers/clusters before
> and those that haven't) find this workflow very compelling (need a
> faster computer? one with more memory? you can use one in the
> cloud for free! here's how to do that easily...),
Easily if they remember how to use git
Greg,
Quite a bit of the discussion since I started this reply seems to
hinge on git being useful because of github and cloudiness. I'm going
to go back to your original two questions and ignore the cloud, if I
may?
For your question 1, I might comment that LD50 isn't usually given all
at once,
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:02:03AM -0700, naup...@gmail.com wrote:
> My sense is that the strength of many of the tools SWC teaches comes when
> analyses are scaled up in complexity or size;
+inf. I don't know if it's possible, but I would love to see this argument
laid out for novices in a
Hi all -
Following up on one of Pat's points, I think one of the biggest selling points
when teaching git (or other version control) to novices is how much easier it
makes working on remote machines. I've taught SWC workshops with iPlant/CyVerse
several times now, and the capstone exercise is
As I’m in the midst of teaching git, this has been a really important
conversation for me since many of my learners are wondering about how to put
word/excel/etc under version control and why something like dropbox wouldn’t
work. While they think git is interesting, they also appear somewhat
> 2. What should we say to someone like Arjun? It's clear from his
> post that he knows the arguments in favor of version control, and
> has actually tried it. It's also clear that he cares about doing things
> well - what can we do to convince someone like that?
>
> It's always too much trouble
Re-reading Arjun Raj's post
(http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.ca/2016/02/from-reproducibility-to-over.html),
I've got a couple of thoughts. First, I think some of the disparaging
comments on Twitter and elsewhere were unhelpful: they're unlikely to
get the author to change his mind, and it
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Byron Smith wrote:
> Not really on topic here, but maybe we should be teaching learners `git
> reflog show` [1]. Everyone messes git up sometimes; Checking the reflog is
> often the best fix when that happens.
>
> On the other hand, the
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Davide Del Vento
wrote:
>> if you’re like me, you will screw up at some point, leading to some problem,
>> potentially catastrophic, that you will spend hours trying to figure out.
>> I’m clearly not alone... “Abort: remote heads
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