Installing git on Windows

Installing Git on Windows

Requirements

• git

Installing and configuring git

1. Download git

• Download git for Windows

2. Install git

(During installation of git on windows, leave all default option checked.)

• When choosing the “Choosing the default editor” choose a text editor you are comfortable with.
• In the Adjusting your path environment step, choose the default option, Use Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software.
• In the next step stick with the default option, being Use OpenSSH.
• At Choosing HTTPS transport backend keep the default option selected at “Use the OpenSSL library”.
• At the next menu Configuring the line ending conversions select Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings.
• Next, at the Configuring the terminal emulator to use with Git Bash select Use MinTTY (the default terminal of MSYS2)
• On the Configuring extra options window, leave all options checked
• Finally click the Install button
• Once completed, you can check the option to Launch Git Bash if you want to open a Bash command line or, if you selected the Windows command line, run Git from the Windows command line.

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