Module: Introduction to git: git-local

Meta-Information

• Module Maintainer: Adrian Etter (@eydrian)
• Course: Programming Practices for Research in Economics
• Institute: Dept of Economics, Uni Zurich
• Current Version: Fall 2017 edition

Contents

This module aims to:

1. Convey the advantages of Version Control Systems
2. Understand the vocabulary of Git
3. Work with Git on you computer
4. Use branches and merge work streams
5. Know where to read up advanced stuff

Building this repository

Run Snakemake from the ROOT directory of this repository

snakemake all

Build Help?

• Install snakemake:

pip install snakemake
# or OSX: brew install snakemake

• Snakemake Tutorial: click here
• Install pandoc: follow set up here
• pandoc help: click here

Acknowledgements

• This module is designed after and borrows a lot from:
  • Effective Programming Practices for Economists, a course by Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
  • Software Carpentry's GIT lesson

Suggested Citation

The suggested citation for this repository is:

Lachlan Deer, Adrian Etter, Julian Langer & Max Winkler, 2017, Introduction to git: git-local, Programming Practices for Research in Economics, University of Zurich

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.