However, now that GitHub is moving to end password authentication for git operations, I find myself needing to do precisely that. It feels counterintuitive and untidy, and I am resistant to learning new git tricks because of that.
I absolutely love version control, and I think GitHub is a fabulous tool, but git itself gives me headaches. The story is quite short… Using GitHub credentials with Rįor some years now I have been using git repositories for version control, with some ambivalence to my feelings. But such is life, and besides, there’s a case to be made that the time I spend on these things is not wasted: usually, I end up learning something useful. It’s not that I’m particularly enamoured of Apple or Microsoft, and I do enjoy the freedom to tinker that linux systems provide, but without the same resourcing that underpins Windows or Mac OS, I do spent a disproportionate amount my time trying to make my long-suffering Ubuntu laptop do something that would “just work” if I’d gone with one of the more traditional options.
There are days when I regret switching to linux as an R user.