Learning Git and GitHub

Introduction

This short course introduces GitHub. We intend to take you through from creating a GitHub account to collaborating using Git and GitHub. We will use resources that the lovely Git community has prepared and made available under the CC-BY license.

If you are using this curriculum to learn Git, we recommend you go through the materials sequentially. Nevertheless, if you have some experience, feel free to skip to the content of interest.

Setting Up

For BOSS Workshops, you already have access to the HPC. If you need to set up the Git command line: -follow these instructions.

• Additional instructions for setting up on a windows machine found here.

Content

1. Lecture Slides: Introduction to Git and GitHub
2. The Simple Git Guide
3. A Visual Git Reference
4. Git Cheat-sheet
5. GitHub Guides. Use these guides to continue practising GitHub

Practice repositories

We have two repositories that we will use to practice Forking and Collaboration.

• MyFirstFork
• Instituitions