This tutorial is minimal. It’s probably considerably less than minimal. But there are lots of great tutorials and other resources for learning to use git and github.

Here are some examples.

• The git documentation

• The Pro Git book

• The O’Reilly Version Control with Git book

• The github help pages

• Git tutorials on github; you can even try it out

• git - the simple guide

• Karthik Ram’s Git for scientists and his review paper on git

• Git and Github videos for beginners by Kevin Markham

• Using GitHub with RStudio:

  • Using GitHub with R and Rstudio by Mark Christie

  • Getting started with GitHub from materials for a software carpentry course at UBC

• Google

• Stackoverflow

• Slides for lecture I gave about git/github, with notes

• My brief summary of git commands