Attention

WARNING: From 8am on 30th June until 5pm on 4th July 2025, there will be no access to the Stanage HPC cluster.

We will try to minimise this downtime and it is possible that Stanage will return to service before 4th July. We will notify you by email when Stanage is back online and available for job submission.

git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Usage

Two version of git are available - an older version that is provided by the operating system and is available on both the login nodes and worker nodes:

$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.1

And a newer version that can be activated by loading a module file and is only available on the worker nodes:

$ module load git/2.39.2-GCCcore-10.3.0-nodocs
$ git --version
git version 2.39.2

Git training and help resources

The software carpentry project offers numerous lessons including “Version Control with Git”.
The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineers regularly run a “git & GitHub through GitKraken - from Zero to Hero!” course.

Installation notes

The git module has been installed using Easybuild 4.4.0 and a custom made git-2.39.2-GCCcore-10.3.0-nodocs.eb which can be found on system in the installation directory: /usr/local/packages/live/eb/git/2.39.2-GCCcore-10.3.0-nodocs/easybuild