GIT for Windows

Git on Windows

Git is a powerful Source Code Management tool:

However GIT is not fully supported by windows despite GIT is a fast program. One of the most notable difficulties is that of losing work when porting Unixy tool to windows. Another main arising effect is the slow uploading and downloading of files which is quite comparatively very slow compared to its standard productivity and efficiency.

Msysgit is one the best packages for compiling GIT for windows. Msysgit is a user friendly tool and is very easy to get installed compared to its alternative and the download size is about 8 mb. It is well known for it is very fast and productive.The download link for msysgit is :

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
Note that : during instalation select" use Git Bash", leaving other options as they are.



Test: Download the latest mainline version for Linux

To test, you should download the latest mainline version of the Linux kernel, that is the last major release of kernel development. For this, we make a copy of the tree with git-clone.

Go to Start> Programs> Git> Git Bash.
This wil open a shell.

Type the following commands:

mkdir my_git
cd my_git
git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git