Network-Social groupwork self-learning "course" on mondays, learning honing Github-centric skills

So, two mondays behind us already!

Attendance has not been high due to guessable reasons but we are going to continue.

Yesterday we concentrated on the data flow diagram in a common open source pattern, using Github and Pull Requests.

In this, we learned most importantly that it is a lot easier to branch prematurely and then doing some changed than it is to first make and commit changes and then start thinking about which branch the commits should go. Of course it is possible to move the commits to other branches later but it is much easier to merge the extra branches.

Also, we learned that Github eagerly proposes making Pull Request out of every newly made branch into a forked repository. In this wizard, it’s possible to select source and target branches, so it’s actually pretty nice.