As mentioned on the last post I am moving the current repository, an html page, to an actual Git repository on github.com. The link to the repository is
http://github.com/nuin/beginning-python-for-bioinformatics/tree/master
and it can be accessed by anyone. There are only a handful of scripts there but I am slowly adding more comments to the scripts and moving them to github. The web interface at github is pretty nice and the code can be viewed on the website with a nice code highlighting, for example. Also there is an RSS feed to receive updates, commits, etc.
How to create a local copy
Git is very easy to use and it is very simple to create a local copy of the repository on your local machine. Git is available on most systems as a command-line utility (there is a gui but I haven’t used yet) and to have an updated copy of the Beginning Python for Bioinformatics, two commands are needed.
- first you have to clone the repository
$ git clone git://github.com/nuin/beginning-python-for-bioinformatics.git
that will create a beginning-python-for-bioinformatics directory wherever you run git (this only needs to be done once)
and to keep the clone updated
$ git pull
from inside the clone directory.
Any questions please let me know.
