Version Control With Git

Version control is the lab notebook of the digital world: it’s what professionals use to keep track of what they’ve done and to collaborate with other people. Every large software development project relies on it, and most programmers use it for their small jobs as well. And it isn’t just for software: books, papers, small data sets, and anything that changes over time or needs to be shared can and should be stored in a version control system.

N.B. Prior experience with the Unix/Linux command line interface is recommended for this workshop.

Recommended Participants

Any researcher who is writing software code. Version control and git can also be useful for any situation where recording a history of changes to text data is important.