Git is a version control tool. This means that you can use it to record and review changes you make to files over time. With Github, you can shares these files and changes with other people, and also incorporate changes made by other people.
In today's course, you'll learn why that's useful for scientists, and how to use git and github as part of a collaborative project.
Please install git before starting this course, and create an account on github.
The slides in the presentations are based on the Version Control with Git course from Software Carpentry. You can treat their course website as the "handout" and worksheet for this course: our syllabus is sections 1-9 from their material.
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09:30-10:00 Introductory video chat
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10:00-12:30 Work through sections 1-6 in the course site, which correspond to the following videos:
- Introduction to Version Control
- Setting up git
- Creating a repository
- Git's three-tier model
- Adding and committing files
- More on adding and committing
- Exploring history
- Demo on exploring history
- Ignoring files
- Git sessions wrap-up
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13:30-14:00 Q&A on git
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14:00-16:00 Work through sections 7-9 on the course site, and the following videos:
- Introduction to Github
- Github and git remotes
- Example of Github integration
- Collaboration on Github
- Resolving conflicts
- Wrapping up
- 16:00-16:30 Q&A on github