Install and Configure Git

Re-recorded and updated: February 24, 2018

In this episode, you will install and setup Git on your Mac including setting up the global configuration and creating a global .gitignore file.

Go to the git website, and download the .dmg file. Then follow through the installation process.

Next, in your Downloads folder, click on the file to unpack it. Then click on the installer file.

Let’s next check that git is installed. Open Terminal or iTerm. Then type git --version. If it returns the version, then it is properly installed.

Next, we setup the global git configuration. You can use this gist for the starting content of your .gitignore_global file.

Finally, we will setup the global .gitignore file.

Resources

• Ignoring files article on GitHub
• Git documentation: gitignore
• My .gitignore_global file