Introduction to Git and GitHub

This course is based on materials by Software Carpentry

Prerequisites

In this lesson we use Git from the Unix Shell. Some previous experience with the shell is expected, but is not mandatory.

We expect that participants will execute this lesson on the NeuroHackademy JupyterHub (hub.neurohackademy.org).

If instead you’d like to execute it locally, you can use your local unix shell (either natively on Mac & Linux or under WSL on Windows).

Alternatively, this course can be followed on Windows using Git Bash. All of the commands shown will work on Windows using Git Bash, with the exception of the vim command. vim is a common text editor on Linux: Windows users should use the notepad command instead, and set notepad as the core editor when configuring Git.

You will need a GitHub account for this session. Please sign up for an account if you do not already have one.

Resources

You can check out the slides for this workshop here.

Note that there are lots of other great resources out there ! Here are a few of our favorites:

• Introduction to GitHub: A visual guide
• Mozilla open leadership GitHub training
• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR
• try.github.io