Git for research

http://lcolladotor.github.io/git-for-research/

or

http://bit.ly/GitResearch

• Do nothing, hope for the best!
• Mark them as old, new
• Store files in a different directory
• Append a _v1, _v2, etc to the file name
• Add the date, for example: 2012_9_11_class.pdf
• Use Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Docs, ShareLatex or something else to manage the files.

• Good organization can save a lot of time!
• Clean directory
• Best for collaborating with others: specially if you are working on the same file
• Good project development practice
• Helps share & reproduce

• It's a distributed version control system (DVCS)
• The most used system: subversion uses git for their code!
• Highly popular thanks to GitHub

Source

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