Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) - Github Edition: Setup

Set up Python

Part of this lesson consists in learning how to make scripts exit correctly. At some point, we will need to test exit codes with Pytest, Python testing tool.

To know whether your Python has pytest, just run python -c "import pytest". If this command returns nothing, it means everything is fine. Otherwise, it can be installed by running python -m pip install -U pytest. More information can be found in the pytest website for installation.

Set up the code

• Create a new project on your personal GitHub account and name it virtual-pipelines-eventselection.

  Make sure you click Public for the visibility level of the new project so that everyone can see your awesome work.

• Get the code

  Open a terminal and clone the repository that contains files required for this lesson.

  git clone git@github.com:hsf-training/hsf-training-cms-analysis.git virtual-pipelines-eventselection
  cd virtual-pipelines-eventselection
  

• Add the code to your personal GitHub account

  At the moment, your clone is the remote repository stored on someone GitHub account. To get the name of the existing remote use

  git remote -v # -v stands for verbose
  

  origin	git@github.com:hsf-training/hsf-training-cms-analysis.git (fetch)
  origin	git@github.com:hsf-training/hsf-training-cms-analysis.git (push)
  

  You have to change remote’s URL in order to be able to add the code to your personal GitHub account.

  git remote set-url origin git@github.com:<GitHub username>/virtual-pipelines-eventselection.git
  

  Check again the name of the current remote:

  git remote -v
  

  The last step is to rename the branch to main, and push it to GitHub.

  git branch -M main
  git push -u origin main
  

  This will add the code to your new repository on GitHub. Done!

If you’re having issues, please let us know immediately since you might not be able to follow this lesson without a proper setup.