Programming Resources: Git/GitHub

Git and github are widely used tools for sharing, versioning, and collaborating on code, data, and other documents. In this workshop, you’ll learn to access code from a github repository and create and share code on your own github repository. You’ll also learn to use git to create and manage different versions of a document, save work in progress, and collaborate on a shared code base with other researchers and programmers

A fun and straightforward blog post about integrating git and GitHub into your research workflow.

This article describes the use of the version control system Git and the hosting site GitHub for statistical and data scientific workflows. Special attention is given to projects that use the statistical language R and, optionally, R Markdown documents.

Why would you want to use git and GitHub? What can it offer researchers who work with analytical code and data?

This illustrated blogpost series tells a story about why GitHub is so powerful for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely.

Several short overview articles on version control and the use of Git