Learn to Collaborate

Let me just make a new zip file of the 200MB project and send it to you via Google Drive…

Exchanging project archives and lack of version control are key problems in project collaborations. First, the changes made are not explicitly visible, unless you go over the entire project and compare new and old versions. Second, such exchanges of files is dangerous because one may confuse which is the final version. This is especially common with file names, for example, “Document-1”, “Document-2”, “Document-2-Draft”, “Document-2-DraftFinal”, “Document-2-DraftFinal2”, et cetera. Third, it hardly allows working in parallel as merging work requires manual copy-pasting of each member’s progress.

In MUDE, we will cover version control systems, namely collaborating using git and GitLab. Although it may seem complicated at first, we are confident that once you learn about the capabilities of these systems, you will not regret it. 😉