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Collaborating with Git and GitHub

Tutorial on collaborating with Git and GitHub. This tutorial was part of the 2019 Neurohackademy, a 2-week hands-on summer institute in neuroimaging and data science held at the University of Washington eScience Institute.

Topics covered in this lesson
  • Why version control needed
  • Getting started with Git
  • How Git stores information
  • Branching
  • Getting started with GitHub
  • Collaborating with a remote repository
  • Contributing to repositories that you didn't create
Prerequisites

In this tutorial, Git is used from the Unix Shell, so previous experience with the shell is required.

Technology requirement
  • Git distributed version control system
  • GitHub account