Introduction to Git & GitHub
1 day
General context
This workshop will take you through the basic use of Git and GitHub. Git is a free and open source distributed version-control system designed to maintain code, track changes, recover old versions and collaborate with other developers.
This course is open to everyone for free, kindly provided to you by ELIXIR Belgium.
Get you started with Git from zero (note that if you already use Git, this workshop will be too basic for you). We'll explore Git on the command-line and its interaction with GitHub.
- Introduction, set-up & configurations
- Working locally: Create a repository, clone, edit, staging commits, commit & push
- Working with your history & logs
- Working in a project: Branching & pull requests
During the workshop we also briefly discuss how you can setup a collaboration project.
This course is intended for researchers who are learning or using a programming language (R, Python, ...) and might have an existing project with code or text files that need track of changes. If you intend to make your code collaborative, bonus points for you! Some basic knowledge of the command-line is advised for this course (e.g. this tutorial).
Trainers
Bruna Piereck
Bruna Piereck is a bioinformatics trainer coordinator working at VIB Technology Training and ELIXIR Belgium. She obtained a PhD in Molecular Genetics, with a focus on Bioinformatics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in September 2019. During her PhD, she had the chance to collaborate with the university of Luxembourg and McGill university in Quebec for a short time. Ever since she has been involved with teaching and Since March 2022, she joined the Technology Training team at VIB.
James Collier
I am a software engineer with over 10 years of professional experience on systems ranging from tiny embedded medical microchips, through to web applications and high-performance supercomputers. I grew up in a small town in rural Australia then completed a PhD at Monash University applying information compression to the protein structural alignment problem. Now I live in the Netherlands with my lovely wife and three children. Currently, I work for VIB Technologies building web applications. You can find out more about me here: https://james.thecolliers.xyz/
Program
Introduction & configurations
Routine usage (stage-commit-push)
Status & history
Working with branches
Collaborating in GitHub
Ignoring files
Practical info
13 September 2022
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
Technologiepark 75
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
13 September 2022
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
From Ghent Sint-Pieters station, you can take bus 49, 50 or 70 to Technologiepark. Please check Routeplanner De Lijn for schedules.
13 September 2022
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
There is only one entrance to Technologiepark. At the entrance, please take a ticket and have it validated at the reception desk of the FSVM building. Parking will only be allowed in regular parking spots (for instance in front of the building) and in the new parking tower. Parking alongside the roads or in other places where there is no regular parking is prohibited and after initial warnings, fines will be issued (€ 50).
13 September 2022
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
Info for trainer
Elixir code: 7399