Not really a joking matter. Fortunately I plan for the worst and never keep anything important solely on local media.
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Preach brother. Thank goodness I’ve been in the mood lately to work on my project, don’t know why, sometimes motivation just strikes. For a few months I was zapped if energy, but in the past few weeks it’s been fine.
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been working 6 / 7 days a week 12 hour days for the past 2 months + . not complaining the money has been good and haven’t virused out yet either , so I have been lucky in that respect . its been frustrating not being able to work on projects when what little time I have had has been spent on domestic chores .
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Well, I kind of flipped part of this problem on it’s head…
Whilst work has been very very busy with no end in sight, everything becoming more run by Project’s and their managers… But on top of that we have had our “availability” scheduled, and in that, is half a day “Professional Development”…
And our department says “Do what you want to improve yourself”
So I spent three hours yesterday Online learning GitHub 
, still got a fair bit of the course to work through but the content we are signing up to seems fair quality.
I can probably use it somewhere in my daily work, probably will be come more useful over time.
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Git is actually really useful.
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nice getting paid to learn something you can use outside of work .
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Oh yeah, sure it will be.
And like most things, it will seem like childs play in a couple of years.
Mm, teenager’s play, maybe.
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I have to supervise a system upgrade on Thursday night, should give me 3hrs to finish the training course if my sidekick is not an utter moron [which he is not] …
Ok. I’ll show my ignorance here. Learning git? I have an account where I pick n Ponce good project ideas from my bed. But im missing something useful here.??
GitHub is a website that utilizes the git version control system. The system is pretty advanced.
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Thanks Christian, is it something I would find useful to invest time in learning? Given how little coding I can do at the moment.
It’s not restricted to code, basically any file can be versioned.
My main use will be PCB’s
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If you can think of a reason to efficiently store every change to any plain file and move between them/see what changed, you have a use for it. Otherwise, probably not, though I think it’s good to have a basic understanding even just to be able to navigate repositories on GitHub.
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Thanks Christian and all for the info.
I’ve put learning git on my "when im able to walk " list. You know the one where you have a killer idea that’ll net me millions.
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I’ll be expecting royalties 
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Git is not significantly more awful than most other version control systems, and github is very good for people who just want to store stuff offsite without jumping hoops. Once you get past all the marketing crap they throw at you these days it’s still a very easy site to use.
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Well I have done a lot of gitting, Tidying up the file systems at the workshop and at home so they mirror each other and set up as repos.
This is making it much easier to work, I am populating the tasks that go on bits of paper you loose into github issues and projects. That way when I do fix something I know it’s done and when I find something I can document it easily.
So that’s all positive for getting going again, I am not stuck with my work being at home or the workshop.
I have scripted the update so that a single command will update all repos.
Still got a lot of the work I have been doing to sort into repos but it’s all going nicely.
So soon I can crack on at fixing the final few bugs in the CSP hardware and continue to work on the Code…
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Great progress. I’m glad you’ve found this tool useful.