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| description | In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up your development environment for HTML development. |
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Go to the Git Website and click on download for windows button.
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Get your Installer:
Based on the current version of windows you can choose to have standalone installer or windows insaller to get started with. As my system is 64 bit i will choose here 64 bit, you can get know which system you are using by going to
This PCicon right click onPropertiesCheck under the system type.- Installer: Get the Installer
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- Start Installation: Open the Installer, upon downloading.
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- The next screen click next on Public Licence.
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- Choose the location as default and click on Next
- Installer: Get the Installer
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Next step, Git Will ask you to install couple of components you can checko on additional icons to add on Desktop and leave the rest as default and click on the Next.
- 1. The next screen click next , make sure the start folder name is Git.
- 2. Next option is to choose the default editor you can use your editor, im using visual studio code. or keep Vim as the default editor
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This stage it will ask you to Choose a initial branch in new repository, it would be ideal approach to give the second option, as we move further it gives us flexibility to change the intial branch name , like main master, trunk.
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This is where we specify the path enviornment of git, just go with the recommened option which is 2.
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1In the next screen choose the SSH Executable, use the deafault oneuse bundled OpenSSHwhich is the default option. -
2On the next, you will ask to configuring the line ending conversions, you gotta keep it default which is option 1. -
3Next step will be configuring the terminal emulator to use the git bash. Keep the default which is option 1. -
4Next option is to choose the defualt option to use the gith . use the default one which is the Fast- forward and merge option 1. -
5In the Credential helper choose theGit Credential Managerscreen. and click on Next. -
6Enable the extra option , click on theEnable the file system Cachingand click on the Next button. -
7In the Next step Screen it will ask you to enable the expiremental support , choose the both the option and click on Install.<BrowserWindow url="https://git-scm.com/" bodyStyle={{padding: 0}}>
Congratulations! The Git Setup has been finished and now you can launch the GitHub.
After that setup, you can see in your PC’s application list there are few new apps are added like ‘Git Bash,’ ‘Git GUI,’ ‘Git CMD.’ However, we will mostly use Git Bash for uploading our projects.
Execute the below command to see your current version of git in Git CMD or windows command promt. Git Installation on Windows is completed.
```html title="create a new repository on the command line"
git --version ``` < />
In conclusion, I hope you enjoyed reading this article on “Setting up your Git Enviornment?”. In the next post, will be discussing using Git to create a Repository and clone a project Github. Signing off Sanjay Viswanathan.