Begin using Git (Part1)-Git installation and configuration

GIT provides clients for Linux, Windows, OSX, and this section takes Windows as an example of basic installation and configuration.

Tools Required: Msysgit, KDIFF3.

• Get Windows Installer on https://git-for-windows.github.io/
• Get Merge tool KDIFF3 on Http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3/files/latest/download?source=files

Under any directory in Windows Explorer, right-click on git bash here and go to git command prompt.

To configure identity information:

$ git config--global user.name "John Doe"

$ git config--global user.email [email protected]

To configure the merge tool:

$ git config--global merge.tool kdiff

$ git config--global mergetool.kdiff3.path "Your path to Kdiff3.exe"

Configure SSH as prompted:

• Check if SSH is configured, and if configured, the following command will return several files similar to Id_rsa, Id_rsa.pub.

$ ls ~/.ssh

• Generate Public/private key. If prompted, skip the password to leave it blank.

$ ssh-keygen-t rsa-b 4096-c "[Email protected]"

• Make sure the ssh-agent is turned on.

$ ssh-agent-s

• Add private key to Ssh-agent.

$ Ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

• Copy the public key to the Clipboard and paste it into remote server profile.

$ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

For example, in GitHub you can find the SSH keys menu in profile->personal settings:

Now that the basic configuration is complete, you can use the preconfigured identity clone repository, commit the code, and more.

Begin using Git (Part1)-Git installation and configuration