Version Control

Version control tracks changes to files over time, so you can see what changed, undo mistakes, and let multiple people work on the same project without overwriting each other. Git is the most popular vision-control tool programmers use. In this tutorial we are going to talk about the installation and configuration of Git, as well as how to use Git repo platforms like GitHub.

Installation

Official download page

Windows

Click on the Click here to download link

Open the installer you just downloaded, and keep all the settings as default. Wait for the installation to complete.

macOS

Choose one of these options:

Homebrew

Install homebrew if you don't already have it, then:

$ brew install git

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MacPorts

Install MacPorts if you don't already have it, then:

$ sudo port install git

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Xcode Command Line Tools

Apple ships a binary package of Git with Xcode Command Line Tools. You can install this via:

$ xcode-select --install

Linux

Debian/Ubuntu

For the latest stable version for your release of Debian/Ubuntu

# apt-get install git

For Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version

# add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
# apt update; apt install git

Fedora

# yum install git (up to Fedora 21)

# dnf install git (Fedora 22 and later)

Gentoo

# emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git

Arch Linux

# pacman -S git

openSUSE

# zypper install git

Mageia

# urpmi git

Nix/NixOS

# nix-env -i git

FreeBSD

# pkg install git

Solaris 9/10/11 (OpenCSW)

# pkgutil -i git

Solaris 11 Express, OpenIndiana

# pkg install developer/versioning/git

OpenBSD

# pkg_add git

Alpine

$ apk add git

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux, et al.

RHEL and derivatives typically ship older versions of git. You can download a tarball and build from source, or use a 3rd-party repository such as the IUS Community Project to obtain a more recent version of git.

Slitaz

$ tazpkg get-install git