Git and GitHub In this lesson, we will talk about version control with Git and GitHub. Some of you might have already heard about it or even used it. Git is a very popular version control tool mostly used by developers but it can very well be applied to non-coding projects as well! You could use it to write a paper or to manage your dataset. If you do develop code, however, you should not live without Git or another version control system.

Motivation and Rationale If you are going to take the time to build computational tools for humanistic research, you want others to be able to reproduce what you did. You want others to be able to verify your results, but also to use the tools you built to further their own projects. Reproducible research may be an unfamiliar concept to many humanists, but its motivation in the Digital Humanities is to ensure that other people will be able to use and modify the computational tools you have taken the time to build.