Getting Started

A Guide to Git for Data Scientists

You don’t have to be terrified of git anymore.

Bobby Lindsey
Towards Data Science
8 min readOct 7, 2020

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Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash

For quite some time, git had been this nebulous, terrifying, thing for me. It was kind of like walking on a tight rope holding a bunch of fine china. Yeah I knew how to git add, git commit, and git push. But if I had to do anything outside of that, I'd quickly lose my balance…

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