Pull and Move (Version Control)
Version control exercises 6-9 assume that you have an instructor adding and
modifying files in your repository. If not, the files are available in the
data and
code directories of
the course repository.
You’re working on a large project trying to predict diversity hotspots. Another member of your collaborative team has produced a series of files that contain lists of areas that resulted from a series of modeling exercises. Each filename begins with the word area.
Your programmer has whipped up a small R script called rich_pred.R that
takes a single file containing a list of areas, one per line, and returns the
area and the predicted richness.
Your team is using version control and all of the relevant files are
in the repository. Navigate to the main working directory for your repository
and update it from the command line using git pull. This will place the
necessary files in your main directory. Move the files into the directory you
created for this assignment by using git mv filename new_location, commit
this change with an appropriate commit message, and push them back to the
central repository.