Collaborating

Overview

Teaching: 45 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• FIXME

Objectives

• Cloning a branch

• Making a branch

• Pushing a branch

• Merging and rebasing

RStudio doesn’t (yet) have the facilities for dealing with branches, so anything relating to branches must be done in the Terminal tab (and/or outside RStudio with other tools).

Pulling a branch from Github

Making a new branch

Create a new branch, and check it out (all in one step) with:

git checkout -b my-new-branch

Any changes you make in RStudio will be made on this branch.

git push origin my-new-branch

FIXME: What happens if you simply push from RStudio?

Pushing

When you’re ready to push your changes…

Merging

Key Points

• RStudio doesn’t yet have facilities for working with branches, but you can work on git branches RStudio by using git commands at the Terminal