Introduction to Version Control and GitLab


Figure 1

Comic: a PhD student sends "FINAL.doc" to their supervisor, but after several increasingly intense and frustrating rounds of comments and revisions they end up with a file named "FINAL_rev.22.comments49.corrections.10.#@$%WHYDIDCOMETOGRADSCHOOL????.doc"
“notFinal.doc” by Jorge Cham, https://www.phdcomics.com

Figure 2

A diagram demonstrating how a single document grows as the result of sequential changes

Figure 3

A diagram with one source document that has been modified in two different ways to produce two different versions of the document

Figure 4

A diagram that shows the merging of two different document versions into one document that contains all of the changes from both versions

Using RMarkdown


Figure 1

pie chart illusion of a pyramid
Sun arise each and every morning

Figure 2

Blue Carpentries hex person logo with no text.
You belong in The Carpentries!

Using RMarkdown


Figure 1

pie chart illusion of a pyramid
Sun arise each and every morning

Figure 2

Blue Carpentries hex person logo with no text.
You belong in The Carpentries!