UCL for Code in Research

In this episode we look into more essential Git commands, such as branching and merging. Branching and merging are key concepts that help you develop code or even text documents in a team. They help you maintain different versions of files and work on them independently. Another element of collaborative working is provided by GitHub: the pull request. Pull request are a great way to do code reviews, which avoids introducing bugs and also learn from each other. In my conversations Sam and Eiri...

Peter Schmidt - the host of this podcast - interviews Sam Harrison, an environmental modeller at the UK Centre for ecology and hydrology. Is it version control important for his research? what tool does he use? How he learn it? Links and transcript available in the show notes. About Sam https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/samuel-harrisonhttps://www.ceh.ac.uk/About Git https://git-scm.com/https://github.com/git/git/https://github.com/git/git/tree/v0.99 (almost) first version of Git from 2005https://gi...