Installing Git

Please follow the instructions bellow to install and setting up Git.

Linux

Check if git is available on your machine by running

git --version

The above command returns the git version (if available).

If git is not already available on your machine you can try to install it via your distribution package manager (e.g. apt-get or yum), for example:

sudo apt-get install git

or

sudo yum install git

MacOS

The XCode command line tools come with Git so no need to do anything more, as long as you can run the following in your terminal:

git --version

Windows

Install the GitHub Desktop Client. This comes with both a GUI client as well as the Git Bash terminal client which we will use during the course. In some instances Git Bash may need to be installed separately. In order to use conda with Git Bash follow the instructions here

You’ll know it has worked when you can open a Git Bash terminal (the window should have a title that starts with MINGW32) and get the Git version by running

git --version