Setting up Git

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Lars Vilhuber edited this page Oct 21, 2018 · 1 revision

Installing Git on your computer

See https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

Windows

You can obtain both a graphical interface and a command line interface by installing TortoiseGit (https://tortoisegit.org/)
You can get a command line "terminal" by hitting the Windows key and typing either "cmd" or "powershell". You can now use the same commands as on OSX and Linux.
If using CISER systems, you do not need to install git.

Mac

To obtain a command line "terminal" on OSX, hit the "Command" key and "space", type "terminal" and hit enter.
you can install git on a Mac simply by trying to run git from the Terminal the very first time:

git --version

If you don’t have it installed already, it will prompt you to install it from the Xcode Command Line tools
You can also install a more recent version from http://git-scm.com/download/mac