Git for Windows Setup

In

Git for Windows Installation screens:
These are the choices you should make for each of the screens.

  • Information:- Next

  • Select Destination Location: Whatever is good, probably the default

  • Select Components:

- I like Git Bash & Git Gui here

- If you have Windows Terminal installed, you can select Add a Git Bash profile

  • Select Start Menu Folder: The default is good.

  • Default editor: Choose Notepad++, if you have it installed

  • Adjust the name of the default branch

- Choose Override and select main

  • Adjusting your PATH environment

- choose default – Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software

  • Choosing the SSH executable

- choose default Use bundled OpenSSH

  • Choosing the HTTPS transport backend

- choose default – Use the OpenSSL library

  • Line-ending conversions

** Do not use the default ** – Use Checkout as is, commit as-is

  • Terminal emulator: choose default – Use MinTTY

  • Choose the default behavior of 'git pull: choose the default

  • Choose a credential helper: choose the default, Git Credential Manager

  • Configuring extra options: choose the default

  • Configuring experimental options

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