From the course: GitHub for Data Scientists

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How does GitHub work?

How does GitHub work?

- GitHub's primary function is to transfer and share code among teams and help people collaborate. As a data scientist, I've used GitHub on just about every project I've ever worked on, so matter what job or which project, If you're a data scientist, you're likely going to use GitHub a lot. In this lesson, you will learn how GitHub works with Git version control to distribute and store code among teams. GitHub works by creating a central repository where multiple people can work on and share code. The repository in GitHub will contain an up-to-date version of your project that you can push code up to and pull code down from. When you change code on your local machine, you can push it up to the repository on GitHub, where the rest of your team can see your changes. Likewise, when someone from your team edits code, you can pull down their changes from your GitHub repository back to the source code on your local machine.…

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