Instructions for installing GIT and configuring GIT on Windows 10

In this article I will guide you to install Git (one of the most popular Source Version Control today) on Windows 10.
Ok, now let's get started!

How to install GIT on Windows 10

Step 1: First, visit GIT's download page to download the installation file here.

Note: The website can automatically determine 32bit or 64bit Windows operating system when you click the download button.

Step 2: After downloading the downloaded file, double-click the file to begin the installation. Click Next to continue.

Step 3:

1. (1) This is the step to choose the installation location, the default is C: Program FilesGit. You can change it by clicking the Browse button next to it and choosing a different installation location.
2. (2) After installation, g applications occupy 260MB of hard drive space.

=> After selecting the installation location, click Next to continue.

Step 4: These are the components that will be installed by default. If you add any additional components, the post-installation capacity will increase compared to the default 260MB => Click Next to continue.

In this step you leave the default and click Next to continue.

Step 5: This step you choose a default editor for Git. I recommend that if you have Notepad ++ installed, click on the arrow to select Notepad ++ as Git's default editor.

This step you choose by default => then click Next to continue.

Step 6: The next step is to customize the environment variable. You choose item 2 because it is Recommended (recommended / recommended) => Then click Next to continue.

Step 7: Continue to select the first item (Use the OpenSSL library) and click Next to continue.

Step 8: If you do use Linux, when you init Git on Linux, if you go to Windows clone the project and do not check at this step, you will get an error. So you tick here and then click Next to continue.

Step 9: In this step, you will configure which terminal to choose for Git Bash. You can choose MinTTY (Default), or choose the default Windows terminal.

The default configuration is when you run the git pull command to synchronize the code from the Remote Repository to the Local Repository.

Step 10: This step, you just choose by default and continue.

Continue, choose by default and click Next.

Step 10: This step you should not check because this function is new and there are some errors. Click Install to begin the installation.

Installation takes about 1 minute or less. After installation, click Finish to finish the installation.

Step 11: To check if you have successfully installed it, you can open Git Bash and try a Remote Repository from Github to your computer.

So in this article I have very detailed instructions with you how to install and configure basic Git on Windows 10 operating system already.

The use of Git / Github (Github is a source code repository) is a lot during the teamwork process. So I encourage you to learn and use proficiently these tools.

Hopefully this article will be useful to you. See you in the next articles about dental programming.

David Pac

Update 02 April 2021