How to install Git in Windows

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How to install Git in Windows

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Git is an open-source utility that enables a developer to make, track and manage changes in code in a Git version control system, that has the ability to “commit” changes to code, manage “repositories”, “pull requests“, “branches“, “conflicts“, “collaborations“, “merges” and perform “roll-backs“.

The utility is available by default on UNIX-based systems like all major Linux distributions and macOS. For Microsoft Windows, if you need to utilize it, you have to manually install it, either by downloading the executable or using the now available “winget” command utility that is the official Windows package manager (like apt/apt-get for Debian-based Linux or yum/dnf for Fedora-based Linux). The easier route is obviously winget, so open up Powershell as Administrator and run the following command:

winget install --id Gig.Git -e --source winget

Wait for the installation to complete, then now run the command-line utility for Git (the error initially thrown that “git is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program” should no longer appear):

git

For Linux Distros, here are the relevant commands for the same (Git) installation:

1. Debian-based (Kali Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Parrot Security OS, Tails OS, etc.)

apt-get install git OR apt install git  

2. Fedora-based (Fedora Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, )

yum install git OR dnf install git

It is important to note that Git is the engine behind Code-Hosting & Collaboration Platforms, Git Software, DevOps & CI/CD Automation Tools, GitOps & Deployment Tools, and Modern Git-Integrated Code Editors. That means that GitLab, BitBucket, AWS Code Commit, infamous GitHub (infamous for scandals around mishandling Developers & their “open-source” Code), GitKraken, Jenkins, VSCode, Vercel, Tower, Gitea, Google Cloud Source Repositories, Netlify, Sourcetree and Azure DevOps Services.

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And by the way, did you know that Git was invented by the one and only legendary Linus Benedict Torvalds, the creator of the UNDISPUTABLE G.O.A.T. Linux Kernel that powers at least 80% of known Cloud Servers, and about 97% of the top 1,000,000 Domains.

How to install Git in Windows
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