Installing Git on Windows is easy enough. Simply head over to their website (https://git-scm.com/) and download the Windows installer. Run it and leave all the defaults. This will also install the Git GUI and the Git Bash.
Open up a Command Prompt. First, we need to identify ourselves to Git. Git has settings on three different levels, system, global, and local. The system settings are system-wide and apply to all Git repositories on the computer. The global settings apply to all the repositories for the currently logged in user. The local settings apply to a single Git repository. More specific settings override less specific settings, so system settings can be overridden by global and local settings, and global settings can be ...
