Installing Git

Install on your system

Use your operating system's usual installer or package manager. After installing, open a new terminal window so PATH updates take effect.

Use common install options

• Windows: download Git for Windows from git-scm.com
• macOS: xcode-select --install or a package manager such as Homebrew
• Linux: install with your distro package manager, for example sudo apt install git

Check the version

Ask Git to print its version. Any recent 2.x release is fine for this course.

git --version

Open a practice folder

Create a folder for experiments so you can try commands without touching real projects.

mkdir ~/git-practice
cd ~/git-practice