Tags, Releases & Publication

Session 12

Starts at:

June 24 2024 (12:15 pm)

Slides Tags & Releases

This session

In this session, you will complete the following tasks:

  1. Complete the chapter “Tags & Releases” in the Version Control Book.
  2. Complete the exercises for the recipes project.

As always:

  1. Try out the commands in the chapter and play around with them.

recipes project

At the end of this session, you should have accomplished the following:

  1. You created an annotated Tag and a GitHub Release.
  2. You linked the release to Zenodo’s sandbox and minted a DOI.

Learning objectives

💡 Understand why Git tags matter in version control and project management
💡 Learn when to use lightweight or annotated tags and how to apply them
💡 Get the hang of pushing and pulling tags in Git for seamless teamwork
💡 Explore how GitHub releases complement Git tags
💡 Discover how to use Zenodo to make your repository citable

Slides

To print the slides to PDF, do the following:

  1. Toggle into Print View using the E key (or using the Navigation Menu).
  2. Open the in-browser print dialog (CTRL/CMD+P).
  3. Change the Destination setting to Save as PDF.
  4. Change the Layout to Landscape.
  5. Change the Margins to None.
  6. Enable the Background graphics option.
  7. Click Save.

Note: This feature has been confirmed to work in Google Chrome, Chromium as well as in Firefox.

Here’s what the Chrome print dialog would look like with these settings enabled:

Screenshot of Chrome print dialog with the first slide/page of 43 shown on the left, and print options on the right. The Destination print option has Save as PDF selected.

These instructions were copied from the Quarto documentation (MIT License) and slightly modified.