Git installation

We will now detail the steps of installing and configuring Git on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

To install on a Windows machine manually, we must download the Git for Windows tool executable from https://gitforwindows.org/ and, once downloaded, we click on the executable file and follow the following different configuration steps during the installation:

  1. Choose the integration of Git in Windows Explorer by marking the Windows Explorer integration checkbox:
  1. Choose your code editor IDE; in our case, we use Visual Studio Code by selecting the Use Visual Studio Code as Git's default editor option:
  1. Choose the PATH

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