If you’ve chosen edit PATH environment variable by yourself you should follow these steps to be able to access GIT from command prompt. Figure 9 Add GIT to Windows PATH environment variable Leave default recommended first option if not sure about implications (Figure 7).Ĭlick finish once installation is complete (Figure 9). Select how GIT will manage files and folders checkout.
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Check “Add GIT to Windows PATH environment variable” here below if you choose first option to install (Figure 6). Select the second one if you’d like installer to add this path to your environment variable automatically. Select first option if you will use GIT command line only from BIN folder of GIT. Select if to add GIT bin folder path to your PATH environment variable.
In this article we’ll be using following tools:īefore start working with GIT repository we should install local version of GIT server which will manage your local GIT repository and provide you with tools such keys generation and basic tools to work with local and remote repositories. Here are some steps that can be useful when you’d like to work with GIT using Visual Studio. To make it work with SSH you should do more steps than just to install Visual Studio. But anyway Microsoft lets the possibility to work with GIT in Visual Studio… but only using SSL communication between repository and IDE. It’s quite tricky to make Visual Studio to work with GIT repository as by default Microsoft is pushing its own product Team Foundation Server.