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 git in RStudio

Syncing your project with GitLab