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  1. Git Source Control

Install Git

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Last updated 5 years ago

Overview

There are two options:

  1. Install Git and Git Flow manually, and use Git via the command line or

  2. Install Sourcefree app which comes with Git and Git-Flow builtin

Installing Git

  1. Download

  2. Run the installer, default options are fine

  3. Open a Command Prompt (or Git Bash)

  4. Run the following commands to configure your Git username and email

$ git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "name@example.com"

Installing Git-Flow

Using Cygwin for windows:

wget -q -O - --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh/develop/contrib/gitflow-installer.sh install stable | bash

Install Git with Sourcetree

Sourcetree has both Git and Git-Flow builtin.

  2. Run the installer

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