Connecting RStudio with git about r-novice-gapminder HOT 7 CLOSED

Found it with some help here: https://twitter.com/PatSchloss/status/704811988078215168

In Mac OS X: Cmd-shift-G allows you to manually type in /usr/bin/ and then you can select git. For Windows this does the trick: https://stat545-ubc.github.io/git03_rstudio-meet-git.html

Do you think it would be worth putting something into the instructor's guide or the setting up RStudio module to indicate this? The Mac OS X is a bigger issue than the windows because you can't see the /usr folder without this solution.

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For OS X, you can do Shift + Command + G to bring up a dialog that lets you go to any path, including /usr/bin. For Windows, git bash (I believe) puts git.exe in C:\Program Files\Git\bin

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Beat me to it @pschloss!

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I think it would be great to have this info in the RStudio set up module (and perhaps the instructor's guide as well). It's the sort of thing that comes up at every single workshop.

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Cool, I'll try to pull something together in the next few days for this as a PR. The other thing that would be good would be to mention an explicit workflow for getting RStudio to talk to github and the need for something like

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=10000000'

to cache the password from the terminal so one can push/pull from within RStudio

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Excellent idea to extend timeout. Students always get frustrated by repeated password entering -- this is a nice quick fix. There's also a "Shell..." option in the "More" drop-down in the git tab in RStudio if you want to do the quick pref setting that way.

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