
Note also that, after upgrading macOS, you might need to re-do the above and/or re-agree to the Xcode license agreement. We just happen to find this Git-based trigger apropos. This may be worthwhile if it seems likely you will be installing more open source software in the future.Īfter you install Chocolatey, in a shell (Appendix A), do: It is not hard and the instructions are here.

This obviously requires that you already have Chocolatey installed or that you are up for installing it. As far as I can tell, using Chocolatey to install Git for Windows gives the same result as installing it yourself (option 1). If this means anything to you, Chocolatey is like apt-get or Homebrew, but for Windows instead of Debian/Ubuntu Linux or macOS. Option 2 ( recommended): Install Git for Windows via the Chocolatey package manager. So check out Git clients we recommend (chapter 8).įYI, this appears to be equivalent to what you would download from here. This also leaves you with a Git client, though not a very good one. Unless you have specific reasons to otherwise, follow this convention. This implies, for example, that the Git executable on my Windows system is found at C:/Program Files/Git/bin/git.exe.

Option 1 ( highly recommended): Install Git for Windows, also known as msysgit or “Git Bash”, to get Git in addition to some other useful tools, such as the Bash shell.
