>writing my Economics thesis for the past year
>Sup Forums mentioned I should use versioning
>sign up to github, get the hang of it
>submitted my thesis just a few weeks ago
>flagged for plagiarism because some Chinese guy in Australia copied and pasted whole sections into his own thesis
>an academic integrity meeting has been arranged and I have to defend myself next week
Don't use versioning for your important assignments and writing.
Git is shit
Nolan Parker
Jeremiah Gutierrez
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David Barnes
Perhaps you should have made it a private repo, dumbass.
Tyler Peterson
Github is shit. Git is good
Carson Sanders
>publishing something online, so it can become part of some AI's data set
Andrew Hughes
I never posted links to it anywhere so I assumed it was private. I'm not a Sup Forums regular so I had never used it before.
Julian Scott
>Posting thesis online
You must have brain damage
Cooper Howard
Should be trivial to prove you made those commits yourself. The academy however should worry that they didn't filter out a brainlet like you.
Cameron Ross
>Used versioning
Then literally you can show them the entire evolution of your git repo, from the very first commit onward.
Daniel Allen
>he fell for the versioning jew