Kathy Chung has a recent PhD in Drama from U of Toronto and a very old BASc in Civil Engineering. She is interested in computing in the humanities and social sciences. She has worked as a learning skills counsellor and a writing instructor at U of T. She is curious about what SWC is doing and wants to learn more. She is interested in computing in the humanities and social sciences. Kathy also sings tenor in the Hart House Chorus.
What I found hardest using Git the first time was…
I’m pretty new to Git. I took a SWC workshop last summer which included a section on Git but it went really fast, so this is basically the first time for me. I found it hard to get a clear sense of the relationship between the master (upstream) swc repo, my forked copy on GitHub, and my cloned copy on my desktop. It’s also hard to get straight the different pull, add, commit, etc commands which have to be carried out within a given copy of the repo (local desktop, forked copy on GitHub?) and between different copies of the repo (btw desktop and origin, btw orgin and upstream, btw desktop and upstream?). I also find the GitHub interface confusing, looks nice, but confusing for a novice.