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What is Git? What is GitHub?

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The best resource I’ve found for understanding Git and GitHub comes from this 2016 talk (slides here) by Alice Bartlett of the Financial Times (hat tip to Garrick Aden-Buie of RStudio for telling me about it).

This article by Allison Horst and Julie Lowndes uses some really cute illustrations to discuss the benefits of using Git and GitHub.

I’ve also collected a set of the best Git/GitHub learning materials on the R for the Rest of Us resources page. I’ll refer to several of these individually in later lessons.

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