Version Control with GitHub

Are you a UVic student, faculty, or staff member and would like to learn to use GitHub for version control on your documents, code, or data, but are not sure where to start? If so, this introduction to GitHub workshop is for you! Similar to Google Drive, Github is a service that lets you store, share, and download information on/from the web in repositories or “repos.” Although specially designed for code and documentation, it can also store many types or formats (e.g. images, PDFs, spreadsheets, 3D models).

Participants will be able to do the following by the end of this orientation:

• Be aware of a range of use cases for GitHub. What is version control and why should I use it?
• Install and setup GitHub and Atom text editor
• Create a local git repository
• Commit & track changes locally
• Explore change history & ignore files
• Collaborate with colleagues on the GitHub website
• Branch a repository & submit pull requests.
• Know how to resolve conflicts with your changes
• Using Git in RStudio
• Version control for binary files (docx, jpg, etc)
• Be able to manage the contents of an existing folder on your laptop in GitHub
• Learn to use an open-source repository for searching academic articles

Check our schedule for upcoming dates on our Workshops page. View the workshop lesson plan: Version Control with GitHub.