Installing Git

Begin the journey with GitHub

Git is an Open Source Distributed Version Control System, which is required to ensure there are no code conflicts between the developers, since real life projects generally have multiple developers working in parallel (Sridhar, 2019). For Windows Git can be downloaded from here but notice that it does not automatically update, which means to update it, download the new version, and install it to update, and it will retain all settings (Jacobs et al., 2022). Steps to install Git for Windows are given in brief here.

Check Windows system type

To check Windows system type follow the instruction provided here, whose steps are as follow select Start button with Windows icon, then select Settings icon, find System on the left menu, and scroll down to About at the bottom on the right.

In this case it is a 64-bit operating system.

Download

Visit https://git-scm.com/download/win.

Choose version compatible with the system, which is 64-bit Git for Windows setup.

Install

Open Downloads folder using File Explorer.

Click the icon of Git version 2.42.0.2 64-bit and face a dialog.

Do want to allow this app to make changes to your device?

Answer by clicking Yes button on the left.

Scroll down and then click Next button.

Use default setting and click Next button.

Use default components and click Next button.

Use default shortcut place and click Next button.

Choose your default editor for Git, where Notepad++ is as an example. Then click Next button.

Let Git decide and click Next button.

Choose the first option and click Next button.

Choose first option and click Next button.

Use default option and click Next button.

Choose the first one since it is in Windows OS and click Next button.

Use default option for the terminal emulator and click Next button.

Choose default behavior of “git pull” and click Next button.

Choose Git Credential Manager and click Next button.

Use default suggesting setting and click Next button.

Simply click Install button.

Wait for the installation process.

Click Finish to end the installation.

Test it

Open a folder, e.g. Downloads, with File Explorer and right click to get following menu.

Click Show more options at the bottom.

Choose Open Git Bash here.

Type git --version to the version of installed git.

Now your git is ready to be used.