Completing this course requires you to have access to a computer with Git installed. This course is currently being delivered remotely so please make sure you have access to a suitable computer. All attendees should download the zip file and, if not already available, install Git.
Downloading the Zip File
The zip archive containing files that will be used in the session is available here. Please download and save it in your home directory, do not extract it yet.
Install Git
Please follow the relevant instructions depending on your operating system.
Windows
- Download the Git for Windows installer.
- Run the installer and follow the steps below:
- Click on “Next” four times (two times if you’ve previously installed Git). You don’t need to change anything in the Information, location, components, and start menu screens.
- From the dropdown menu select “Use the nano editor by default” and click on “Next”.
- Ensure that “Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software” is selected and click on “Next”. (If you don’t do this Git Bash will not work properly, requiring you to remove the Git Bash installation, re-run the installer and to select the “Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software” option.)
- Ensure that “Use the native Windows Secure Channel library” is selected and click on “Next”.
- Ensure that “Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings” is selected and click on “Next”.
- Ensure that “Use Windows’ default console window” is selected and click on “Next”.
- Ensure that “Enable file system caching” and “Enable Git Credential Manager” are selected and click on “Next”.
- Click on “Install”.
- Click on “Finish”.
- If your “HOME” environment variable is not set (or you don’t know what this is):
- Open command prompt (Open Start Menu then type
cmd
and press [Enter]) - Type the following line into the command prompt window exactly as shown:
setx HOME "%USERPROFILE%"
- Press [Enter], you should see
SUCCESS: Specified value was saved
. - Quit command prompt by typing
exit
then pressing [Enter]
- Open command prompt (Open Start Menu then type
This will provide you with both Git and Bash via the program Git Bash. You
should be able to launch Git Bash from the Start Menu. Within the window that
launches enter the command git --version
and press enter. You should see
output similar to the below:
git version 2.34.1.windows-1
MacOS
For OS X 10.9 and higher, install Git for Mac by downloading and running the
most recent “mavericks” installer from this list. Because this
installer is not signed by the developer, you may have to right click (control
click) on the .pkg file, click Open, and click Open on the pop up window. After
installing Git, there will not be anything in your /Applications
folder, as
Git is a command line program. For older versions of OS X (10.5-10.8) use
the most recent available installer labelled “snow-leopard” available
here.
To check the installation was successful open the “Terminal” app. In the window
that launches enter the command git --version
and press enter. You should see
output similar to the below:
git version 2.33.0
Linux
If Git is not already available on your machine you can try to install it via
your distributions package manager. For Debian/Ubuntu run sudo apt-get install
git
and for Fedora run sudo dnf install git
.
To check the installation was successful open a new terminal. In the window that
launches enter the command git --version
and press enter. You should see
output similar to the below:
git version 2.25.0