Workshop preparation
1. Create a GitHub account
- Navigate to GitHub and sign up for an account if you don’t already have one.
- After registering, sign in to your account.
2. Install Git
- Navigate to Git downloads and choose your operating system.
- Follow the instructions provided to download and install Git.
Extra Information for Windows users
When installing Git, choose the following options.
- Adjusting the name of the initial branch in new repositories
- Override the default branch name for new repositories. Set this to
main.
- Override the default branch name for new repositories. Set this to
- Choosing the default editor used by Git
- Choose your preferred editor. If you’re unsure, select “Notepad”.
- Adjusting your PATH environment
- Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software.
- Choosting the SSH executable
- Use bundled OpenSSH.
- Choosing HTTPS transport backend
- Use the OpenSSL library.
- Configuring the line ending conversions
- Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings.
- Configuring the terminal emulator to use with Git Bash
- Use MinTTY (the default, terminal of MSYS2).
- Choose the default behaviour of ‘git pull’
- Default - (fast-forward or merge).
- Choose a credential helper
- Git Credential Manager.
- Configuring extra options
- Enable file system caching.
- Configuring experimental options
- Do not select anything and click install
When using Git throughout the workshop and in the future, use the Git Bash application.