Th context here is a little different in that the students are not necessarily DH students, though the programme is funded because it teaches digital (and publishing) skills to HSS students. So we have to balance ease and interest with our mandate.
-- Sent from my phone using swipe typographical error production technology.
Daniel Paul O'Donnell Department of English University of Lethbridge
-------- Original message -------- From: "Sara L. Uckelman" s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk Date: 2014-12-30 13:52 (GMT-07:00) To: "dm-l, MailList" dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: Re: [dm-l] [Technical]: Suggestions for a replacement for Subversion?
On 12/30/2014 11:30 AM, Abdullah Alger wrote:
Saying that, if your students are working on digital humanities projects and are coding, they should learn Git. It's an essential tool that professionals use every day.
I was traveling all day and thus the recommendations I would've made have already been made by other people, but I cannot pass up the opportunity to second this, very strongly. Properly implemented, git can be extremely user friendly to use (my DMNES project linked in my sig involves a lot of data entry and requires scrupulous version controlling; my editors have a web-front end that they use and beyond creating an account on github, they never interact with git at all), and there is a large amount of documentation and help out there for those who are willing to put in a little bit (i.e., an afternoon) of time into learning it. Learning how to use git should be considered a requirement of someone who intends to work in digital humanities, just as learning LaTeX is one for anyone working in math or logic.
-Sara
-- Dr. Sara L. Uckelman Department of Philosophy Durham University https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=12928 http://dmnes.wordpress.com/
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