For the last two and a half years, the CTM Group at NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) has consolidated its Git-based workflow around repositories hosted at GitHub and the tools that GitHub provides w/ those repositories. This talk will briefly introduce GitHub and the EOL Field-Catalog web and database applications, for contextual background, and then present how we've used Git and GitHub to enhance and streamline our development process and workflow. I will present how we use the following topics, and their benefits, costs and lessons learned:

• Git-based branching workflow
• Git tags, for release management
• Markdown and GitHub-Flavored Markdown formatting and code syntax formatting
• GitHub Issues, for transparent and asynchronous discussion of features and bugs and associated code commits
• GitHub Pull Requests, for code review and discussion of proposed code changes
• GitHub wikis, for miscellaneous application documentation that doesn't belong in the repository
• Git-push-based Easy Deploys to development, staging and ops environments, without relying on GitHub nor other third-party dependencies
• GitHub Gists, for documenting and sharing notes, checklists, code ideas, etc.

Source code for this talk will be available as a public Git repository hosted at GitHub, available via MIT License and the presentation slides will be published via GitHub Pages.

Presentation slides: http://erikj.github.io/gitgithubncareol