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Installation

To get started, the git command-line tool needs to be installed.

Atlassian has a pretty nifty tutorial for the installation, but you can also follow the documentation on Git's own website.

Download links from git-scm.com:

Testing

After installation, you will want to check that Git is properly set up.

Open your choice of terminal (Linux & Mac) or Command Prompt on Windows and type:

git --version

Example:

$ git --version
git version 2.31.0

Configuration

In git, the commits hold some metadata about you.

You will need to set a name and email to be used. This is especially important when working with others, as the information is needed to distinguish committers in the history.

git config --global user.name "First Last"
git config --global user.email "devnull@polarsquad.com"

You can check that the above worked by running git config -l. You'll also get all the other settings it has:

$ git config -l
...
user.name=Miika Kankare
user.email=miika.kankare@polarsquad.com

Next

You're now ready to make your first commit!