Open Source Science with Git and GitHub

git is software for version control (keeping track of the change history of a file or set of files) and collaboration (allowing multiple authors to edit the same file). It is the global standard in academia, government, and industry for managing software code.
It allows you to keep a complete history of changes to your code (or text), maintain multiple versions of your code in parallel, and collaborate with multiple authors on code changes.

GitHub is a commercial website (free for academics and public code) for sharing and collaborating on git histories. Together, git and GitHub allow effective, global collaboration on code or text while exactly tracking contributions and changes.

This workshop covers the theory required to understand version control with git and GitHub; how to get started and set up a repository; configure git and track change history; working in new branches and merging conflicts.

Course Level: Foundational