Installing git and some useful shell commands#

Learning Objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • install git on your local machine

  • set the username and user email for git

  • list, create and delete files from the command line

Notes#

  • Git is typically already installed on linux and mac

  • Setting the username and email is not optional!

  • You can skip the command line intro if you have seen the shell screencasts

  • The videos recommends some outdated programs. Stick to what we recommended

Additional configuration#

Sometimes git will open a code editor in which you can type a commit message or some other message. On most operating systems, the default editor for this is a command line editor like vim or nano that is hard to use. We recommend that you set it instead to vscode with the following command:

git config --global core.editor "code"

Materials#

For this topic we are building on the excellent YouTube playlist by NetNinja

Quiz#