Learning Git is a core skill for anyone who codes. Git is the standard tool for version control of code
and other text files. Git protects your projects by recording every step, allowing you to recover files
and reverse errors easily. In combination with GitHub, it turns reliable version control into a
powerful tool for collaboration and open and reproducible science.

Workshop description
The main goal of this crash-course is to give you the basic skills you need to start using Git for your own research
projects both individually and in collaboration with your colleagues. You will learn a complete Git workflow including
remote repositories on Github both in theory and practice.

In 2 afternoon sessions (2 x 2 h), we will cover the following topics:
10.11.2025 2 - 4 pm: Basic Git concepts and workflow for individual projects (Initializing a repository, committing

changes, pushing to a remote repository on GitHub)

11.11.2025 2 - 4 pm: Collaboration workflow with Git and Github (branching, merging, pull requests)

You will learn both the theory and the practice with hands-on exercises.

For whom is this workshop?

The target audience of this workshop are beginners without prior experience with Git and Github. However, it might
also be interesting if you already use Git for your personal projects but want to learn more about the underlying
concepts and collaboration using Git and Github.

Who is the instructor?
I am a scientific programmer in the theoretical ecology group at Freie Universität. I enjoy sharing knowledge about tools
and workflows that make research more reproducible, robust, and enjoyable.
If you have any questions regarding the course, please don't hesitate to contact me via selina.baldauf@fu-berlin.de.