This is the Jupyter Notebook and playground repository for an October, 2017, presentation about git and GitHub to the Austin meetup group Women in Data Science.
The audience for this talk has some experience with git but not with complex workflows like rebasing and cherry-picking. This presentation imagines you usually follow a strict recipe of commands, and if at any point it deviates from that recipe, it would be easier to delete everything and start from scratch.
This workshop will give you alternatives to setting it all on fire.
GitHub does a nice job of rendering Jupyter Notebooks, but even better, go to the .ipynb file in GitHub and use the theta-looking icon in the top right to open the notebook in nbviewer.
Use the exercises repo for modifying files and executing git commands, without getting conflicts from this repo's tracking of the Notebook file you are using.
Clone this repo to get your own local copy of the Notebook (see the "Fork and Clone" section of the notebook). You need to have git, python 3, and jupyter notebook installed. Invoke the notebook with the command jupyter notebook when you are in the directory for this repo.
The notebook takes advantage of the %%bash "magic" command (a feature of Jupyter Notebook) to invoke commands in the bash shell on your system. If you want to try typing the git commands at the git bash command prompt, leave out the %%bash part.
When viewing locally, don't bother invoking the first code block, with the HTML() python method, because that sets the font to a large size for presenting.
Within the Notebook are commands to clone the exercises repo, so once you have the Notebook, it will guide you through getting the other repo.