Intro to Git & using it to collaborate on the blog


ReproducibiliTea Journal Club

Richard J. Acton

Git

A tool for versioning and asynchronous collaboration on plain text files

  • Originally developed by Linus Torvalds to manage contributions to the Linux kernel
  • By far the most popular tools used by developers to collaborate on code
  • Think: ‘track changes’ but much more, powerful, robust, and scalable