Tutorial

Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material - Contributing with GitHub via command-line

Galaxy is a great solution to train the bioinformatics concepts: numerous bioinformatics tools are available (almost 5,000 in the ToolShed), it can be used by people without amy computer science skills, it trains to use technology, outlining available resources and efforts that have made them accessible to researchers, it is scalable. In 2016, the Galaxy Training Network decide to set up a new infrastructure for delivering easily Galaxy related training material. The idea was to develop something open and online based on a community effort, as always in Galaxy.

Questions of the tutorial:

  • How can I contribute to an open-source project with GitHub?
  • What is the GitHub flow?

Objectives of the tutorial:

  • Fork a repository on GitHub
  • Clone a remote repository locally
  • Create a branch
  • Commit changes
  • Push changes to a remote repository
  • Create a pull request
  • Update a pull request

Resource type: Tutorial

Authors: cmonjeau, bebatut


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