Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of git and GitHub

Yasset Perez-Riverol; Laurent Gatto; Rui Wang; Timo Sachsenberg; Julian Uszkoreit; Felipe Leprevost; Christian Fufezan; Tobias Ternent; Stephen J Eglen; Daniel S. S Katz; Tom J Pollard; Alexander Konovalov; Robert M Flight; Kai Blin; Juan Antonio Vizcaino

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004947

BioinformaticsPLOS Computational BiologyJul 14, 2016

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Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of git and GitHub

Yasset Perez-Riverol iD, Laurent Gatto, Rui Wang, Timo Sachsenberg, Julian Uszkoreit, Felipe Leprevost, Christian Fufezan, Tobias Ternent iD, Stephen J Eglen, Daniel S. S Katz, Tom J Pollard, Alexander Konovalov, Robert M Flight, Kai Blin, Juan Antonio Vizcaino

Abstract

A Ten Simple Rules guide to git and GitHub. We describe and provide examples on how to use these software to track projects, as users, teams and organizations. We document collaborative development using branching and forking, interaction between collaborators using issues and continuous integration and automation using, for example, Travis CI and codevoc. We also describe dissemination and social aspects of GitHub such as GitHub pages, following and watching repositories, and give advice on how to make code citable.

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