July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 32m
English
Git can be installed using a variety of methods, including browsing the Git website at https://git-scm.com/downloads and downloading the latest release suitable for your operating system.
For the sake of demonstration, we will be installing Git on Mac OS X. Once we click on the appropriate link, our download will start and the binary files will be copied to our designated downloads folder. All that is left to do is to extract the files and then double-click on the installer to complete the installation process.
We can validate that Git has been installed correctly by opening up a Terminal window and executing the following command:
which git
The preceding command is illustrated in the following image:
If at any point there ...
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