get control of your source code with git (hands-on: bring your laptop)

[Andrew Straw]

Py4Science VBC talk announcement

*get control of your source code with git (hands-on: bring your laptop)*
Andrew Straw

Friday, 22 May 2012, 12:30pm, GMI Orange Seminar Room (room 9.36)

As scientists, it is critical to maintain accurate records of exactly
what software we run when we perform a particular experiment or
analysis. The standard way to do this is with revision control software
which keeps track of what changed and when within a repository of files.
In the past several years, a new class of such software has emerged,
dramatically reducing the workload to set up a new source code
repository, transfer version controlled files from one computer to
another, and to collaborate with others. Git is amongst the best of
these new solutions, and our lab is using git and an online service
(github.com) to facilitate these actions to great effect. **Bring your
laptop, because at this py4science VBC, we will walk you through
installing git, cloning a repository from github, making changes to the
repository, and pushing your changes back.**

As always, sandwiches and drinks will be provided.

[Andrew Straw]

Err, that should be Friday 25 May -- apologies!

-Andrew

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Andrew D. Straw, Ph.D.
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Vienna, Austria
http://strawlab.org/

[Maciej Pasternacki]

Just a quick note that might be interesting: Github launched recently a 15-minute interactive Git tutorial at http://try.github.com/ - it may be useful to see how to use it… or convince somebody to take a look at Git!

-- M