Git & GitHub

Version control

Version control

is a way to:

• Back up changing files
• Store and access an annotated history
• Manage merging of changes between different change sets

Version control

Categorization 1

1. Centralized: Subversion (svn)
2. Distributed: Git (git)

Version control

Categorization 2

1. Local: Git
2. Remote: GitHub

Good News

GitHub Desktop for both MacBook and Windows

Github

More features

• Landing page support
• Wiki support
• Network graphs and time histories of commits
• Code browser with syntax highlighting
• Issue (ticket) tracking
• User downloads
• ...

Github

case 1 FiPy

Github

case 2 Fire Dynamic Simulator

Github Mechanism

Our project: Wind OpenFoam

NIST GitHub

NIST GitHub Organization membership

(USNISTGOV)

NIST GitHub rules

Points to pay attention:

1. Use institute email: FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@nist.gov
2. Enable two-way authentification
3. Upload SSH public key to your account

References

for Git & GitHub

• Try Git (http://try.github.com)


• Pro Git Book (http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2)


• Software Carpentry's Git Lessons (http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/)


• Software Carpentry quick reference (http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/reference.html)

References

for computational scientists