Syllabus

Day 1
- Summary of git internals
- Standard git workflow
- Forking and cloning repos
- Branching and adding upstream repos
- Making pull-requests
- Reviewing and merging a pull-request
Day 2
- Benefits of prototyping
- Project management and Agile
- Basics of good testing
- The structure of tests (Given, When, Then)
- Essentials of PyTest
- Continuous Integration with Travis CI
Day 3 & 4
- Contributing to Numpy
Day 5
- Planning and preparation for the semester project
- Requested tutorials

git

Warm-Up

how to start a repo from scratch?
- git init local method
- on GitHub git clone and either git push --force or git pull methods
how to revert mistakes?
- git revert vs. …
- git reset vs. …
- git reset --hard
how to go to a specific point in history?
- git checkout SHA ⟶ DETACHED HEAD problem
- interaction with branches
git gui: building commits along the way interactively (for the mess around type of workflows)

The Open Source model

remotes: pull, push, fetch, merge
GitHub: forks, branches and PRs
strategies for keeping your fork up-to-date: rebase or merge
a more thorough and deailed explanation can be found on the Numpy Contributor's Guide. This guide can be adapted to your own needs, see gitwash.