Authors: The UNIC version control evangelists

Version 0.1

September 23, 2016

Contents

• Basic ideas
  • Examples of version control systems
  • The importance of tracking projects, not individual files
  • Advantages of formal version control systems
• Getting started with Git
  • Installing Git
  • Creating a repository
  • Adding files to the repository
  • Committing changes
  • Viewing the history of changes
  • Seeing what’s changed
  • Switching between versions
  • Giving informative names to versions
  • Recap #1
• Making backups
• Working on multiple computers
• Collaborating with others
  • Dealing with conflicting changes
  • Recap #2
• Working with branches

Licence

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Sources

https://bitbucket.org/apdavison/git-for-neuroscientists/ - feel free to fork the repository!