Installing git on Windows

Installing Git on Windows

Requirements:

• git

Installing and configuring Git

• During installation of Git on windows, at the “Select components” leave all default option checked.

• At choosing the “Choosing the default editor” choose a text editor you are comfortable with.

• In the “Adjusting your path environment” 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. Source: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001927.htm