Installing Git on your Machine | Windows,OSX and Linux

This Tutorial will show you how to install Git depending on the Operation System you are using.

Windows :

• Method 1 :

  Downloading :

  To download git on Windows, follow this link : Git for Windows

  

  Installing :

  After downloading Git, you can now install it like any other Windows Executable Software, Just click on that .exe file and let the magic happen.

  

  Checking :

  After the installation, you have to check if everything went perfectly and Git is successfully installed.

  to do that, open a Git CMD (Win + ‘Git cmd’)

  

  and type :

  git --version

  and you should have something like this :

  

• Method 2 (Recommanded) :

  With this method, you will just do the 3 steps in 1 step.
  You can do that by downloading an application called Cmder.
  This app is a Console Emulator for Windows that comes with Git on it’s Full Version.

  

  So, All you have to do is Downloading it, Extracting it to a folder, and just run the cmder.exe file.

  

  Checking :

  To check if Git is installed successfully, type

  git --version

  and you should have something like this :

  

Mac Os :

Downloading & Installing :

You can install Git on MacOs by :

• Using Homebrew (Recommended), with this command :

  brew install git

  

• Using the Git osx installer that you can download here : OSX-Installer

  

Checking :

To check if Git is installed successfully, Open a terminal and type

git --version

and you should have something like this :

Linux :

Downloading and Installing :

To install Git on Linux, you will only need 1 command.
Of course this command will depend on your Linux Distribution.

• Apt-Based (Like: Debian,Ubuntu …) :

  apt install git

• Pacman-Based (Like: Arch,Menjaro …) :

  pacman -S git

• Yum or DNF Based ( Redhat, CentOs…) :

  dnf install git / yum install git

  

Checking :

To check if Git is installed successfully, Open a terminal and type

git --version

and you should have something like this :

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