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Definition
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Git is a distributed version control system that records snapshots of a repository as commits on branches, supports merging and history inspection, and is the de facto standard for tracking code and, increasingly, reproducible analysis configs alongside studies and pipelines.

Topics
Programming
URL
https://git-scm.com/
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Why it matters in GWAS

Tooling papers, summary-statistics processing scripts, and polygenic / bioinformatics workflows are usually shared as Git repositories; reproducibility reviews assume you can clone a commit hash, diff changes, and bisect when a GWAS pipeline breaks.

Example usage

"We tagged the release commit in Git and archived the same tree as supplementary Software Heritage snapshots."

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Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Chacon S, Straub B. (2014). Pro Git. Apress.
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