Git.md

Git

author: I. Bartomeus

Git is happening

Git, Github, Shell, Rstudio

• Git lives in your computer (after painfully installing it)
• You talk with git using the shell, Rstudio, sourcetree (Mac), smartgit (PC)
• Github is a popular online central repository. Bitbucket too.
• Github for researchers

What it does

• Keep track of your changes
• Allow you to keep a history
• Backup your project
• Simplify colaboration

Example

Main barrier is wording

Git is hard, but worthy

Words you need the first day:

• stage (load the boxes)

• commit (load the truck) #write your history

  Once commited changes are never lost!

• push (truck leaves)

• pull

• ...

More wording

• origin (central repository)
• branch
• master (the branch you are in)
• HEAD (pointers)
• checkout (move along the tree)

whatch video at te bottom after using Git for a month.

Workflow

pull (technically fetch+merge)-> work -> commit locally-> push to a central repo.

.gitignore (and pasword)

• Is just a file saying what do you want git to ignore
• e.g. the file with your pasword!

More...

• Branching
• fast-forward merge
• cherry-pick
• rebase

Resources

Git for Scientists

More

Git happens See it only after using git for a while.