Git/GitHub Workshop

Wednesday 13 April, 13:00-17:00

SPC Noumea Library Room

Instructor: Arni Magnusson

Slides

• Introduction to Git and GitHub
• Git Commands and User Interface
• Discussion Points

Topics

1. Main benefits of using Git/GitHub: track changes, backups, collaboration, dissemination

2. Git concepts: repositories, commits, tags, branches, gitignore

3. GitHub features: releases, assets, forks, pull requests, issues, browse, access control, authentication

4. Git commands: clone, status, diff, add, commit, push, pull, log, tag, rm, checkout, clean, reset

5. Git user interfaces: command line, RStudio, web browser, other

6. Good habits: commit early and often, keep commits small, keep a light repo, pull before making changes

7. Techniques to manage multi-contributor collaboration in a single repository

8. When to manage workflows in separate folders vs. repos vs. forks vs. branches, main git folder

9. Git workflows for SPC projects, comparison with other online storage solutions