This lesson covers advanced topics in git, using GitHub and RStudio. Topics include forks, issues, pull requests, branches, and creating user and project GitHub Pages.
This lesson is intended to pick up where the basic git lesson and git in the shell lesson leave off.
We taught this lesson as part of the "postdoc data science whirlwind" day on 7 Oct 2020. Here are a few additional notes from that day that future instructors should be aware of:
- The lesson was taught by showing everything from the RStudio server interface and using the Terminal tab within RStudio. This confused some students who were more used to just opening a terminal window locally, or possibly doing it within JupyterLab. So just be aware to make sure people who might not be using RStudio are following along.
- On the other side of the coin, some students weren't too familiar with the RStudio GUI. Make sure you don't assume they all are, and accommodate those who are not.
- When creating a new empty repo on GitHub, you need to have at least one commit before you can create a branch. Otherwise there is no master/main branch and thus nothing to branch a new branch from. Initializing the repo with a README.md will accomplish this.
- Though the students did review the prerequisite material, many of them did not already have their own git workflow set up either locally or on the SESYNC server, so it's important to make sure that everyone sets up a repo to be used for this lesson.
- The amount of content is probably adequate for a 2-3 hour time block without covering any of the material on GitHub Pages. We may split that into a separate lesson in the future.
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) curates and runs tutorials on using cyberinfrastructure in pursuit of the Center's scientific mission. Visit www.sesync.org to learn more about SESYNC and cyberhelp.sesync.org for more tutorials and ideas.
this readme last modified on 22 Oct 2020