Essential Git for Scientists
  • Introduction
  • Basic Concepts
    • Version Control
    • Git
    • Repo
    • Commits
    • Branches
    • Remotes
    • GitHub
    • De-centralisation
    • Summary
  • Basic Operations
    • Install Git
    • Create a Repo
    • Make a Commit
    • Inspect a Previous Commit
    • Revert a Change
    • Make a Branch
    • Extend a Branch
    • Fast-forward merge
    • Resolve conflicts
  • Intermediate Concepts
    • Commits
    • Three Trees
    • Rebase
    • Fetch
    • Pull
    • Push
  • Advanced Concepts
    • Reset
    • Interactive rebase
    • Formatted patches
    • Blame
    • Stash
    • Log filter
  • Cookbook
    • Undo
    • Branches
    • Diff
    • Stash
    • Merge
    • Hooks
    • Squashing
    • Rebase
    • Interactive Rebase
    • LFS
    • Submodules
    • Remote
    • Force push
    • Identify merged branches
    • Formated patches
    • Apply patches
    • Interactive rebase
    • Squash commits
    • Pull rebase
    • Log
    • Blame
    • Biset
    • Reset
  • Exercise
    • Exercise 1
    • Exercise 2
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  1. Basic Operations

Install Git

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In this section, we will install Git on the computer.

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  • Download the latest Git installer for your platform

  • Install from the installer

There are plenty of guides on how to install. Take a look at this one:

Verify

  • Open a terminal

  • Type git --version

If you get something like git version 2.29.1.windows.1 and no error messages, then it's successfully installed.

Git is made up by a set of subcommands. Most Git commands have a git <subcommand> <args> ... type of format.

https://git-scm.com/
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git