An introduction to version control for single users using git. This lesson doesn't cover collaborative git, but does introduce users to pushing to remote repositories for personal use. Please see https://illinois-cse.github.io/git-local-fa18/ for a rendered version of this material.
This lesson is an abridged version of and
heavily influenced by the carpentries' lesson git-novice. Please refer to
that material for additional information on git.
If you're interested in a good example of a paper with scripts to reproduce the data and how data is managed in a research repository, Nelle Varoquaux has a very good example here: https://github.com/NelleV/takefive
For an example of a more complex document, like a dissertation, you can look at Kelly Rowland's example repository here: https://github.com/kellyrowland/dissertation-demo . This divides up the thesis into separate chapters, so your .tex documents won't get incredibly long and unmanageable.
If you aren't sure about writing a paper this way and you'd like something rendered more frequently, you can instead use Overleaf, which renders the paper for you alongside the raw tex files. Overleaf offers github integration. You can read about that here: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to/How_do_I_connect_an_Overleaf_project_with_a_repo_on_GitHub,_GitLab_or_BitBucket%3F