Version control overview

general use cases
- history (track changes/ backup)
- collaboration
- development of new features/ materials
wikis
- evolution of an article
- collaboration
  - en.wikibooks:oldid=1903783 — child's play
  - en.wikipedia:oldid=325225752 — making sense of life
  - en.wikipedia:oldid=196444951 — commas
- new stuff
software
- examples
  - Python development
  - GIANT BUG

git

git hosting platforms

GitHub

GitHub cheat sheet

Features

Use cases

collaborative software development
- mostly closed but a lot is public
collaborative writing
- in the repo itself
  - manuscripts
  - grant proposals
  - ontologies
    - Human Disease Ontology
    - Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology
  - policies
    - Federal Source Code Policy
    - FAIR data
  - websites
- in the wiki
  - analysis of the E. coli O104:H4 strain responsible for the May/June 2011 outbreak in Germany and Europe
  - GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit
data sharing
- US Federal Government
  - data.gov
  - CDC
    - reused
      - reused
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- GitHub's Open Source Survey
  - more on data below
project management
- OpenSourceMalaria
peer review
conference planning
- TDWG 2017 — Biodiversity Information Standards, also known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)
- Force 2017 — Future of Research Communication and e-scholarship
CVs
- example
note taking
- Daniel's notes on data science

GitLab

homepage

Bitbucket

homepage

Phabricator

Version control outlook

dat
Quilt
data management plans
data sharing (accompanying a paper)
data citation
software archiving
continuous integration
- https://travis-ci.org/EnvironmentOntology/envo/builds/248163459
Working with large files on GitHub