I’m up for adding a git talk to the November meeting. I’m doing what I expect 
will be a shorter ansible talk about using it to configure your laptop, 
workstation, or whatever. I doubt it will be a two hour talk. I suspect that 
the main points will be covered in 30 to 45 minutes.

Scott

> On Oct 29, 2019, at 11:49 AM, J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have more of my own stuff on Gitlab. However, I'm interested in learning a 
> bit
> more about using git effectively in collaboration with others no matter which 
> platform
> (or their own site) they are using. The git paradigm is not trivial. For 
> those of us
> who use it sporadically there is some "relearning" each time. Recently I 
> found I failed
> to get a pull request to work properly. Still not sure why. I suspect there's 
> other
> members who are not power users of git who can benefit from some helpful 
> cheat notes
> and diagrams, as well as an overview of the web interface.
> 
> JN
> 
> 
> On 2019-10-29 10:22 a.m., Rick Leir wrote:
>> Hi John and Robert
>> There might be time for a Github vs Gitlab chat. Several notable projects 
>> went to Gitlab, possibly due to a long
>> standing antipathy to Microsoft. I am at Github myself.
>> Cheers
>> Rick
>> 
>> On October 29, 2019 10:07:57 AM EDT, J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>    I suspect Scott will get this via the list, but just in case ...
>> 
>>    Probably worth a little coordination so we have a smooth meeting.
>> 
>>    Thanks, JN
>> 
>>    On 2019-10-29 10:06 a.m., Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> 
>>        On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, J C Nash wrote:
>> 
>>            A discussion of using git (in particular on github) is one of the
>>            items for next week's meeting. I suggested it after realizing 
>> that I
>>            didn't manage a change properly with an R package I'm developing
>>            with a colleague I've never met but have been sharing development
>>            with for the last couple of years.
>> 
>>            Your input would be most welcome.
>> 
>> 
>>        well, if there's an open speaking slot, i can present what i was
>>        thinking of as a 35-40 minute "brown bag" lunchtime seminar. it's a
>>        little bit techie -- it explains the structure of Git's object store
>>        and how Git actually stores history using a combination of blobs,
>>        trees, commits and tags.
>> 
>>        if people are interested, i can give that one.
>> 
>>        rday
>> 
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