brianzelip/intro-to-github

GitHub workshop material

Introduction to GitHub workshop

Brian Zelip, Emerging Technologies Librarian

University of Maryland, Baltimore

bzelip@hshsl.umaryland.edu

What is GitHub

• Data sharing platform
• Collaboration tool
• Version control system
• Discovery platform
• Publishing platform

Concepts

• repository
• fork
• commit
• commit message
• branch
• issues
• pull request

Different ways to access GitHub

1. github.com
2. GitHub Desktop app
3. Local command line interface
   1. GitHub cli tool
4. APIs

Help

• GitHub FAQ
• GitHub Guides
• GitHub Learning Labs (more indepth than guides)
• GitHub video tutorials
• GitHub Pages (web hosting)
• Git documentation

GitHub alternatives

• GitLab
• BitBucket
• Jira
• Sourcehut

URLs from workshop tour

• "FINAL".doc comic
• White House budget data
• Choose a License
• Creative Commons licenses
• JHU Leek Data Science Lab and jtleek.github.io
• NCBI on GitHub
• GitHub API response for NCBI repositories
• JHU COVID dashboard source

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Slides artwork source: https://githubhackathon.com/.