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.
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.
Alexander Botzki
Alexander Botzki is heading the Technology training unit at VIB, the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium. The main mission of this unit is providing technology training in domains of VIB Technologies, Bioinformatics & AI, Software Development, and Research Data Management. Between 2014 and 2022, he was head of the VIB Bioinformatics Core. From September 2009 to July 2014, he was responsible for the roll-out of E-Notebook (electronic lab notebook) to VIB's researchers within 75 research groups.
Before joining VIB, Alexander worked on various computational biology projects for Algonomics (bought by Lonza, 2008-2009) and DevGen (now Syngenta, from 2006-2008). During Alexander's PostDoc at Sanofi Aventis in Strasbourg, he executed various virtual screening campaigns on the compound selection of the merged enterprise. He received his doctoral degree with the group of Prof. Dr. Armin Buschauer (University of Regensburg, Germany) on 'Structure-based design of hyaluronidase inhibitors'.
Program
Introduction & configurations
Routine usage (stage-commit-push)
Status & history
Working with branches
Collaborating in GitHub
Ignoring files
Practical info
Info for trainer
Elixir code: 7458