git --fast-version-control

What is “version control”, and why should you care? Version control is a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later. For the examples in this book you will use software source code as the files being version controlled, though in reality you can do this with nearly any type of file on a computer.

If you are a graphic or web designer and want to keep every version of an image or layout (which you would most certainly want to), a Version Control System (VCS) is a very wise thing to use. It allows you to revert files back to a previous state, revert the entire project back to a previous state, compare changes over time, see who last modified something that might be causing a problem, who introduced an issue and when, and more. Using a VCS also generally means that if you screw things up or lose files, you can easily recover. In addition, you get all this for very little overhead.

Reference

• git config Get and set repository or global options
• git init Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one
• git clone: Clone a repository into a new directory

Current Features

• Templates for narrative, drama and poetry
• Responsive design for mobile phones, tablets and PCs.
• Relatively easy to learn and teach
• Works well in high- or low- bandwitdh scenarios
• Easier for digital archives and libraries to preserve
• Open source, open access
• Unobtrusive footnotes
• Metadata in Dublin Core and OpenGraph to play nice with Zotero, libraries and social media.
• Automatic table of content generation
• Simple search functionality
• Annotations via hypothes.is
• Optional: Ability to generate well-formatted bibliographies and linked citations

Installing and using Ed

To learn how to install and begin using Ed, please visit our documentation page.