Installing Git
By Ryan Florence, published 2010-07-27
Part of the issue Git Your Act and Deployment Together.
Mac OS X
If you have Homebrew installed, you know the drill:
$ brew install git
You can also download the precompiled installer and install git like most applications.
Linux / Mac
Get down with your geeky self and install git from source
Windows
The most popular way to run git in windows is mysysgit
Global settings
It’s a good idea to set some global setting like so:
$ git config --global user.name "rpflo"
$ git config --global user.email "rpflo@example.com"
If you plan to work with people on both windows and linux/mac you should all set this as well to avoid major issues with line endings (more on why):
$ git config --global core.autocrlf input
That’s it! You’re ready to git it on. Continue on to Git for beginners
