- Github is an excellent version control and collaboration platform - allowing the Exeter Diabetes team to centralise their code in one place.
- Github allows you to create a stable branch of your code so that you have a permanent link to reference for Research papers, all the while working and updating your code in the same place!
- An organization can be managed more simply than having several independant github repositories, and it simplifies interacting with large singular repositories by breaking them down into more bite-size collaborations!
This repository consists of all the info you need to know in order to get started as a collaborator! Here is the recommended order to go through:
- Nomenclature.md
- Acceptable naming format/style for repositories
- Understand your way around the organizational repositories
- GitConfig.md
- Step-by-step guide to correctly set up github on your device
- Change and view git credentials
- Repositories.md
- Setting up new Github repositories
- Connecting local projects to Github repositories
- GitBash.md
- Explains the core concepts of Git
- Get comfortable with using Git in its native environment - shell
- R-StudioGit.md
- Use Git without ever leaving R-Studio
- Manage your commits, stages, and pushes/pulls without memorising the Git shell commands