Git Tutorial

The goal of this tutorial is to introduce you to git with practical applications so that it becomes an integral part of your workflow.

Git is a distributed version-control system. You should typically use such system to manage any data for which:

• You want to track (and potentially revert) changes.

• You want to maintain multiple versions of.

• You want to distribute with the possibility of merging back the distributed changes at a later time.

While this introduction may feel abstract, it will get more concrete as we go through the basics and concrete applications I decided to include in this tutorial.

It should be noted that I tried, as much as possible, to hide the graph theory behind git. After going through the tutorial, you might feel git commits graph is more of a tree: this is because I've chosen the material to optimize the ratio of usefulness with respect to the difficulty of learning it.

Table of Content

• Basics

• Applications

  • Efficient Prototyping

  • Managing Datasets

  • Distributed Environments

• Cheatsheet

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• Git

• Git Commit

• Algorithms

Do not forget to hover your mouse on the pictures for the alt-text!