Materials originally developed for the "Version control for research" breakout session of the Best Practice for Code Archiving workshop, 11 December 2016.
You have seen that the standard workflow loop for version control in RStudio is very quick and simple:
As well as this basic workflow, you’ve learned how to look at changes using Diff and to inspect your project’s history.
Git and GitHub are extremely powerful and flexible systems and there is a lot more you can learn if you wish. For further help on using git with RStudio: