Collaboration is increasingly important in science, and there are a growing number of tools to aid in collaborative tasks. However it is not always which tools are best for a particular task and group size. We develop a set of recommendations on best practices when considering a set of tools for carrying out collaboration.
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Fork the repo to your local GitHub account
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Clone your forked version of the repo to your machine
git clone [email protected]:your_user_name/collaborative-tools.git
- Link your local repo back to the master on weecology
git remote add upstream [email protected]:weecology/collaborative-tools.git
- Fetch any changes that occurred on the master on weecology
git fetch upstream
- Merge those changes with your local copy
git merge upstream/master
- Commit the merges to your repo
git commit -m "Merge upstream changes"
- Push the merge back to your forked repo
git push
Repeat steps 4-7 before you begin work on the project in the future