Version control with Git

Coding Club Seminar Series

Version control with Git

 When: May. 23rd, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Seminar Series Details:

Presented By:

Desiree Tillo (GAU, BTEP)

Where:

Online Webinar

Organized By:

BTEP

About Desiree Tillo (GAU, BTEP)

Bioinformatics Training and Education Program

NCI/CCR

About this Class

Versioning enables researchers to track changes in coding projects. This Coding Club introduces Git (https://git-scm.com), an open-source software used to perform versioning on a personal computer. At the end of this class, participants will:

• Understand the importance of versioning
• Describe Git
• Know how to access Git
  • Be aware of resources that helps with Git installation on personal computer
  • Be aware of the availability of Git on Biowulf, the NIH high performance computing system
• Define repository
• Know the steps involved in the versioning process including
  • Initiating a new repository
  • Understanding the difference between tracked and untracked files
  • Excluding files from being tracked
  • Staging files with changes
  • Commiting changes and writing commit messages
  • Viewing commit logs
• Compare between versions of code
• Revert to a previous version of code