Wrangling with Git

Today’s session on Git, though still frustrating due to glitches in the Windows program, helped clarify the application. Here are the four things I learned:

  1. Github is an application - it’s the tool to manage source code for each project. Github.com is the website which is a hosting service for the repositories.

  2. Notepad++ is the text editor used for coding in Windows.

  3. You can rollback to a previous commit in your repository - this is an extreme move and only used rarely.

  4. Why are we here: to troubleshoot; and to learn how to learn.

Anice Mills

Author: Anice Mills

Anice Mills has been the Undergraduate Services Librarian in the Humanities & History Libraries since 2002. She holds an M.A. in Russian History from the University of London and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from LIU/Palmer School. She is the selector for the Milstein Undergraduate Library housed in Butler Library. She aims to support the research interests of undergraduates in Columbia College and General Studies, with particular focus on incorporating digital tools and methods into their research. Her project focus is on the history and development of Riverside Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and built between 1875 and 1910 alongside the Hudson River to complement the developing Morningside Heights community.