Test Repository for Course "Scientific Writing and Bibliographic Research" @ Uni Mannheim

Git/GitHub Exercise

1. Prerequisites:

   • Register for a GitHub account (if you not already have one)
   • Install Git (NOT GitHub Desktop) on your computer
   • Set up Git to connect to GitHub:
     • Using HTTPS (easier, but you have to enter your username and password every time you push changes)
     • Using SSH (more complicated, but you only have to set it up once)
   • Configure Git to use your name and email address

2. Task: Git and GitHub workflow (basic)

   • Fork this repository
   • Clone your newly forked repository to your computer
   • (Create a new branch, optional)
   • Find an unaltered text file data/birth-dates/, i.e. one which still has some missing information (???? instead of a year)
   • Look up the birth date on Wikipedia and replace the ???? with the correct year
   • Commit and push your changes to your fork:
     • git add
     • git commit
     • git push
   • Send us a pull request on GitHub (and check back in a couple of days to see if there has been any activities associated with it)
   • 🎉 Done! You have gotten your first pull request accepted! 🎉

See the exercise materials for more information. You can now return to ILIAS and continue with the other tasks.

Documentation for LaTeX installation

You find detailed documentation about the LaTeX installation in the folder doc.

FAQ

Some frequently asked questions together with their answers from the course are collected in the document doc/faq.md.