Evolution of TC

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Let's GIT started - A novice's guide to version control and collaboration

canceled

  • Presentation
  • Docs as Code
  • 06. June
  • 11:45 - 12:25 AM (CEST)
  • Uranus & Neptune
  • Bergfrid Skaara Dias

    Bergfrid Skaara Dias

    • SuperOffice AS

Contents

Do you struggle with Git? Do you panic when "Automatic merge failed" flashes on your screen? Or are you procrastinating using Git all together?

 

In this presentation you'll learn the basics of Git repositories, branching, merging, and collaboration as well as best practices for using Git in your projects.

Takeaways

  • Git can improve collaboration and version control in your documentation projects
  • It's hard to mess up beyond what's recoverable
  • Connect the dots and harness branches into a well-groomed Git tree

Prior knowledge

Any TC practitioner

Speaker

Bergfrid Skaara Dias

Bergfrid Skaara Dias

  • SuperOffice AS
Biography

Professionally, the cocktail of computer science, psychology, pedagogy, and didactics have taken Bergfrid into the field of technical writing. For 20 years, Bergfrid has been spearheading technical writing with increasingly more technical responsibilities and pushed for practices such as doc-as-code, continuous integration, automating the docs build pipeline, and improving companies' way of work. 

Her most recent endeavor is docs.superoffice.com.

She is the published author of "eZ Publish Content Management Basics" (2007) and "eZ Publish Advanced Content Management" (2008).

Off the clock, she grows a wide variety of chilies, reads 52 books/year, and writes fiction novels.

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