This is a brief introduction to git for scientists and other regular people who don't regularly think about version control and who wouldn't see themselves as computer scientists or coders.
Fortunately git can be very helpful, even to people who only occasionally have to deal with code or other people.
The problem is that most introductions to git I've seen don't make it clear how (or why) git would fit the general researcher's workflow. The ideal audience for this document are the countless graduate students I see around me whose work wouldn't work without code and who would greatly benefit from a little version control.
I hope you find this helpful. Feel free to submit any corrections or edits.
This document was written in pandoc flavored markdown, and uses a modified
theme I've decided to call modern.tex that I found in the pandoc manual.
To write the PDF from pandoc, just use the make-pdf.sh script.