Installing Git

Installing Git on windows

Go to below location and download git executable.

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

At the time of writing this tutorial series, 2.18 is the latest version.

Double click on the downloaded executable.

Click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

You can select the git default editor, in my case I selected Notepad++ as my default editor.

Click on Next button.

Select the option ‘Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt’ and click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

Click on Install button.

Installing in Linux

For RPM based distribution

sudo dnf install git-all

For debian based distribution

sudo apt install git-all

Validate the installation

Open command prompt (or) terminal and execute ‘git --version' command.

C:\>git --version
git version 2.18.0.windows.1

If you see above kind of output, your git installation is successful.

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