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Hack your way to a good git history
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Our May Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event.
A confident git practice can change the work life of anyone writing code or prose with R, resulting in a useful history to browse or go back to, the possibility to work in parallel on different aspects, etc. In particular, it is best git practice to create small, atomic commits with informative messages. Why? And how?
Learn three reasons why small git commits are worth it. Discover how to realistically create them, without too much hassle. Find out how the saperlipopette R package can help you practice safely, and share your own git tips and questions!
Speaker
Maëlle Salmon, with a PhD in statistics, is a Research Software Engineer and blogger. At rOpenSci, she maintains the guide rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review, and has developed the babeldown and babelquarto packages for multilingual documents. At cynkra, she contributes to the fledge and igraph packages. Maëlle is also the co-author of the book HTTP testing in R with Scott Chamberlain and manages the R-hub blog. Additionally, she regularly contracts with various organizations, including research institutions, for R package development. Maëlle is a member of the R-Ladies Global team.