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title: Installing Git subtitle: "Committing" to Git Workshop author: Michael Connor Buchan date: 2023-10-20 ...

🪟 Windows

  • Download and install Git for Windows
  • Select “Add a Git Bash profile to Windows Terminal”
  • Choose your preferred text editor for writing commit messages
    • This can be anything, but you don't need a fancy editor for commit messages, they're just plain text
  • Choose to install git-credential-manager
    • This makes authenticating to Github and other code-forges much easier
  • Leave all other options at default unless you know what they mean

 macOS

I've written a script that will automatically install everything you'll need:

  • The Xcode command-line tools
    • This contains git itself
  • The Homebrew package manager
    • This lets us easily install git-credential-manager
  • git-credential-manager
    • This makes authenticating to Github and other code-forges much easier

If you'd like to read the script, you can view it here

Open a terminal and run the following command to execute it:

curl -Ss https://lowerelements.club/ussc-git/install-macos.sh | bash

Finally, configure some essential git settings:

git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
git config --global core.editor "open --wait-apps --new -e"

By default, this will use your default text editor (usually Text Edit) as git's editor. See git config core.editor commands if you'd like to choose another editor

🐧 Linux

Install the git package with you're system's package manager.

Debian / Ubuntu & Derivitives

sudo apt install git

Redhat / Fedora & Derivitives

sudo dnf install git

Arch & Derivitives

sudo pacman -S git

Finally, configure some essential git settings:

git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
git config --global core.editor nano

By default, this will use nano as git's editor. See git config core.editor commands if you'd like to choose another editor