Download

Git can be easily downloaded and installed, OS specific instructions can be found on the official website:

https://git-scm.com/

Instructions during installation

(For Windows Users)

Select the commit message editor to be notepad instead of the default one (vim), as it can difficult to use for beginners.

Post installation setup

Let's tell git about ourselves, it's just like setting up a local account on git so that it knows us:

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email "john.doe@website.com"

Replace the name with your GitHub username, and the email with your email that you made the account with on GitHub.

There is one thing to learn here that is this --global flag. Only use this flag with the command if you want to setup this configuration globally through out your machine. If you want to specifically setup some folder with a different account you can skip this flag.