Version control for neuroscientists

Repository for Git+Github tutorial at the UChicago Neuroscience and AI workshop.

Discussion Objectives

• Why do we care about version control?
• Basic git concepts -- repositories, commits, branches, merging and managing branches
• GitHub fundamentals -- pushing & pulling, clones & forks, pull requests, reviewing PRs, merging PRs
• Live coding to illustrate and practice these concepts

Learning Resources

• Learn Git Branching interactive game
• Understanding Git Conceptually, by Charles Duan
• How to not be afraid of Git anymore, by Neil Kakkar
• What is Git? Our beginner's guide to version control, GitHub Blog
• Git cloning vs forking, Graphite
• Git tips and notes, Dumitru Uzun
• Git it Desktop app for learning Git and GitHub

Further reading

• Git - Beyond the Basics, The Ivory Tower
• Git for Computer Scientists, by Tommi Virtanen
• How to write a git commit message, cbeams