example-repo

This is the template Brian showed me

If you need to link new github account with longleaf (should only need to do this once)

• Connect longleaf ssh keys
  • If setting up, check for existing public keys using ls -al ~/.ssh
  • Copy a file that looks like id_rsa.pub using cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  • Go to profile settings on github and select the ssh key section
    • Add new key
    • Name the key appropriately
    • Paste the copied ssh key from the cat step above
    • Create!
• Add github credentials to longleaf
  • git config --global user.name "your-github-username"
  • git config --global user.email your.email.linkedwith.github

Create new repo

• On github.com, create new repo
  • Add README.md and .gitignore for R
• Go to new repo, click Code, and copy the SSH link (should end in .git)
• Navigate to where you want to have the repo on LongLeaf
• Run git clone URL-THAT-YOU-COPIED

Using RProj

• Open OnDemand Session
• Set working directory to new repo
• Create RProj in existing directory
• Good to go!
  • Theoretically, you can push, commit, etc. from here, but it's faster (easier?) on the terminal

Using Git in repo

• .gitignore has rules to exclude files by name pattern or location
  • Don't upload data or large files!
• Changes need to be staged with git add
  • git add . adds all files not excluded by the .gitignore in the directory
  • git add -i opens an interactive adding session
• Commit staged changes with a note to your future self
  • git commit -m "Hi future me, this is what I changed"
• Commits are pushed to branches
  • For the main branch, use git push origin main

Helpful links:

[HappyGitWithR] (https://github.com/jennybc/happy-git-with-r)