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