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<li>Quick <a href="qstart-git.html">reminders for using git</a> at the command line.
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<h3>Uploading cave survey data</a></h3>
<p>You can read or clone these repos without any control, but to write ("push") to them you will need to use <var>ssh://expo@expo.survex.com</var> and set up the <a href="keyexchange.html">key exchange</a>.
<p>NOTE: when using git to path to a repository, always use user <var>'expo'</var> as the login user (<var>ssh://expo@...</var>) even though within git you will be identified by your own ssh key name. This is because file permissions on the server require this.
<p>So cavers wanting to upload their cave survey data have to use a machine on which they key is already set up. The <i>expo laptop</i> lives in the potato hut during expo and it is sometimes joined by the laptop '<i>aziraphale</i>'. These are both loaned machines running Linux. If you want to use your own laptop then
see the <a href="basiclaptop.html">basic laptop setup</a>.
<h3 id="git">Version control system</a></h3>
<p>We use a distributed revision control system (<a href="https://git-scm.com/about/distributed">git</a>) for all the important data.
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<p>A version control system is inefficient for photos, GPS tracks and scanned survey notes which are large files that do not get modified. These are kept as a plain directory of files <a href="/expofiles"><var>/expofiles/</var></a>.
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<h3>Uploading cave survey data, scanned notes or Therion/Tunnel drawings</a></h3>
<p>You do <em>not</em> need to know about the version control system for several common
cave data surveying tasks. The online system has forms to allow you to upload these, and it invokes git behind the scenes to keep everything tidy. However these capabilities are being used for the first time on the 2022 expo so be prepared for things to break, e.g. if two people try to do the same thing at the same time.
<h3>Reading and cloning</a></h3>
<p>You can read or clone these repos without any control, but to write ("push") to them you will need to use <var>ssh://expo@expo.survex.com</var> and set up the <a href="keyexchange.html">key exchange</a>.
<p>NOTE: when using git to path to a repository, always use user <var>'expo'</var> as the login user (<var>ssh://expo@...</var>) even though within git you will be identified by your own ssh key name. This is because file permissions on the server require this.
<p>So cavers wanting to upload their cave survey data have to use a machine on which they key is already set up. The <i>expo laptop</i> lives in the potato hut during expo and it is sometimes joined by the laptop '<i>aziraphale</i>'. These are both loaned machines running Linux. If you want to use your own laptop then
see the <a href="basiclaptop.html">basic laptop setup</a>.
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