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M. TsitoaraBeginning Git and GitHubhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5313-7_2

2. Installation and Setup

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Now that you how what is Version Control and how Git works, we are going to learn how to install and set it up. This chapter is shorter compared to the others because it is so easy to set Git up.

Installation

The files necessary to install Git are on https://git-scm.com/downloads for all systems. Just follow the link and choose your Operating System.

You can also see in Figure 2-1 that there are GUI clients for Git also available there. Don’t head out there before you complete this book’s third part, Teamwork with Git. You need to familiarize yourself with Git commands before using ...

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