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Don Chedele
7,676 PointsGit vs Github for Windows
What's the main difference between Git and Github for Windows?
Are they pretty much the same or do I still need to install Git?
3 Answers
Ricky Catron
13,023 PointsYou could download git bash http://git-scm.com/downloads It give you a console to use on windows and allows for an easy introduction to the command line on a windows system. It comes with git and is very easy to work with. I use it myself everyday when working on Windows.
Marcin Robert Kaźmierczak
33,570 PointsThis is the same. Windows is not PostX system, so you are not able to install Git from console. Git hub for Windows is an app where you can use all Git features and if you want you can use command line as well.
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 PointsWell they are pretty much the same thing but in order to use github properly you probably need to install git. Git a version control system that allows you to commit, branch off of and save different versions of your code, github is more or less a place to store those different versions for people to see, branch off of or contribute to those versions. I'm pretty sure in order to push up to github you need git. Git also is pretty easy to use and is well documented. Once you start using it you will wonder how you survived without version control.