Collaboration Introduction to GitGithub
ANDREW RINGLER: It's like a file sharing system, like Dropbox, except you manually take care of the files yourself and you worry about merge conflicts. So if in Dropbox, you and your collaborator added a document at the same time, it tries to save both and it goes, aah, something's wrong. And it makes one that says "conflicted copy." And GitHub does a similar thing but then it hands it back to you and it says, I'm not going to save that conflicted copy, you need to tell me what to do to resolve that so that I only have one version of each file and it's the master version. So GitHub, in a nutshell, is just a way to share files with other people collaboratively without overwriting other people's stuff and without having conflicts happen inside of the cloud where you're able to share this document. So what I'm going to go over today is GitHub and then briefly how to add pages and upload them. So what is GitHub? Does anyone want to explai...