Install Git on Windows (step by step)

Git saves every version of your files. Keep the defaults, watch two choices, and check it with one command.

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Windows › Manual › Git

Install Git

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Gitsaves every version of your work

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Git Basha terminal that comes with it

Apne kaam ka record. A record of your own work.

Git keeps every version of your files, so you can always go back. It is used everywhere in real jobs, and we use it to keep your SQL files safe. The installer also gives you Git Bash, a terminal.

Step 1

Download Git

git-scm.com/download/win

Click Click here to download for the latest Windows version (Standalone Installer).

Yahan bhi official site se. Official site again.

Open git-scm.com/download/win and download the latest version (the Standalone Installer for your PC). Open the downloaded file from Downloads.

Step 2

Keep defaults, watch two

Git Setup

✓Use Visual Studio Code as Git's default editorpick this

✓Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party softwarekeep default

Everything else: leave on the default and click Next.

BackNext

Baaki sab default. Everything else stays on default.

Click Next through the screens and keep the defaults. Two choices to watch: for the default editor, choose Use Visual Studio Code as Git's default editor; and on the PATH screen, keep Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software, so git works in Command Prompt. Then click Install and Finish.

Step 3

Check git works

Command Prompt– □ ×

C:\> git --version git version 2.x

A version number means Git is ready.

Open a new Command Prompt and type:

git --version

You should see something like git version 2.x. If Windows says git is not recognized, reinstall and keep the option Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software.

If something goes wrong

Common problems

`git` is not recognized	Reinstall Git with Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software selected. Open a new Command Prompt.
Still not found after install	Restart the PC once.

Tell me exactly what the screen says. Ghabrana nahi.

git is not recognized: reinstall Git with Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software selected, and open a new Command Prompt.
Still not found after install: restart the PC once.

Your turn

Did git --version print a number?

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