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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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1 Installing Git

You can install Git in several different ways: by using one of the GUI installers, by using a package management system, or, in the time-honored Linux tradition that spawned Git, by compiling it from source.

Don’t worry if you’re not ready to start compiling software; all major operating systems provide alternatives to compiling Git yourself. For example, Ubuntu provides Git via its apt-get tool, so a few commands from the terminal are enough to get you going. Likewise, OS X users have the option of using MacPorts[5] or the new Homebrew[6] to handle the installation. Not to be left out, Windows users who use Cygwin[7] can also install it via Cygwin’s setup.exe.

Windows and OS X users who prefer GUI installations have ...

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