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Installing Git on your PC¶
The Math-Magik project is being managed using Git. If you want to contribute to the project, you will need to have git- installed on your machine. Fortunately, there are installers available for just about every platform. I have Git installed on every machine I run, both physical and virtual.
Windows PC¶
The installer for Windows can be found at this link:
Just run the installer and Git should be available on your command line.
Note
There is a portable version of this version that you can load on a flash drive if you like.
Installing Git on your Mac¶
If you use a Mac, there is an installer available for that as well.
However, I recommend that you install Homebrew and use that tool to install it. Homebrew is a nice package loading system many Mac developers use to install commonly needed tools.
Assuming Homebrew is installed, here is all it takes to install git:
$ brew install git
That is it, Git should now be ready to go!
Installing Git in Linux¶
This is also easy.
Open up a terminal program, and type this:
$ sudo apt-get install -y git-core
The sudo part of that command will require that you provide your password.
The -y part just answers yes for a silly pause that asks if you really want
to do this. (Of course I do, you silly computer. Why else would I have typed
that command?)
Git References¶
Once you have Git installed, you need to learn how to use it. Here are a couple of good references that will help. (I keep both of these in my DropBox account: