Preparation

Readings:

• What is Version Control: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-version-control (5 min)

• What is Git: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-git (6 min)

Github:

• please, create an account on Github.com if you haven't created one yet

Git:

• Install Git before the Sunday session:

• Mac: it should be sufficient to run brew install git in the Terminal

  • Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS (and Linux), used to easily install and manage software via the command line. You can install it easily by following the instructions on https://brew.sh/

• Ubuntu (or any Debian based Linux system): run sudo apt-get install git in the Terminal

• Windows: download and install Git for Windows. Step by step instructions:

  

  Git for Windows download page

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the download git page and download the latest version .exe file. It would generally be the most downloaded file from the list.

  2. execute the file you downloaded

  3. on the Information screen, click next

  4. on the Select Destination Location screen, click next

  5. on the Select Components screen, click next without changing anything

  6. on the Select Start Menu Folder screen, click next

  7. Choosing the default editor used by Git, select Use Vim and click next

  8. Adjusting the name of the initial branch in new git repositories, select Let Git decide

  9. Adjusting your path environment, select Use Git from Git Bash only and click next

  10. Choosing HTTPS transport backend, select Use the OpenSSL library and click next

  11. Configuring the line ending conversions, select Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings and click next

  12. Configuring the terminal emulator to use with Git Bash, select Use MinTTY and click next

  13. Choose the default behaviour of "git pull", choose Default (fast-forward or merge)

  14. Choose a credential helper, choose Git Credential Manager Core

  15. Configuring extra options, select Enable file system caching and Enable Git Credential manager, click next

  16. Configuring experimental options, do not select any of them, and click install

  17. and you should be pretty much done :)

• it is *very important that you set up your SSH keys by following those instructions on Github, or this video

Optionally, if you are using Windows and want to use Git Bash on VS Code, follow the instructions in this StackOverflow answer. Linux and MacOS users don't need to do anything related to that - Git Bash on VS Code works right out of the box.