Setting up Git on Your Machine

Setting up git on your machine

Install Git for Windows

Quick Setup

Just use the default answers for all the items, except:

Editor choose Notepad++
Default Branch choose "main"
"Line-ending conversions" choose "Checkout as is, commit as-is"

Long Step-by-step Setup

More detailed instructions for setting up Git on your machine: Git for Windows Setup

Set up your Git Identity

Configure your local Git installation to identify yourself to Git:

• git config --global user.name "username"

• git config --global user.email "email_address"

Set up a github account

Create a github account

• Use your preferred email account

• You may want to set up ssh credentials

Set up SSH

• SSH is a convenient way to control access to your github repositories.

• See https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh