A starting point for discovering the wonderful world of Git, GitHub, and Git Annex (Assistant)
A starting point for discovering the wonderful world of Git and GitHub in the context of Research Workflows.
We'll be walking through a standard tutorial together. We won't cover all the material, but enough to get you started with the fundamentals and use this as a way to work through your workflow and answer questions that you have:
Software Carpentry tutorial: https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/
To simulate a collaborative research workflow, we will also be using a remote cloud environment in addition to your laptop.
Any time you need quick access to a shell command line somewhere other than your laptop you can use (for free!) Google Cloud Shell.
Try launching Cloud Shell now in your browser by clicking this link:
https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard?cloudshell=true
Then run these commands in the Cloud Shell window:
git clone https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/git-fundamentals/
cd git-fundamentals
./rstudio-on-gcp.sh
Note: The tools below are other interesting and useful tools that you may wish to explore, however they are NOT REQUIRED for this workshop. The only install that is required is the the official Git installer.
Command line tools:
GUI tools
Integration for your text editor!
To choose a default editor to use with git:
Atom $ git config --global core.editor "atom --wait"
nano $ git config --global core.editor "nano -w"
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