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notes from git breakout session at #datacamp (Nov 1, 2013 - Surrey Public Library)
#datacamp git breakout group notes
version control & git introduction
- git branch of evergreen code
- git branch changing between
- Matthew McCoullough delicious.com/matthew.mccullough page. list of git guis available
- git command line vs. git gui (many guis don't have the same functionality as command line)
- git examples with theses
- git repos of excel exported CSV files
- git relies on diff for managing changes between files, but isn't great for data (a change in a column in a data file changes the entire file... ssdiff)
- open knowledge foundation - okfn.org (git (and github) for data) - http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/02/git-and-github-for-data/
- standard for publishing open data (your CSV along with some JSON metadata datapackage.json)
- possible takeaway: create automated datapackage.json maker (might already exist)
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