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Like I mentioned in the previous stage, Git was created by Linus Torvalds,

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the inventor of the Linux operating system.

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Because of Linus' familiarity with the POSIX file system that Linux uses,

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Git has a lot of dependencies that aren't easily available to Windows.

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For a while it was very difficult to get Git up and running on a Windows machine.

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But I think it's safe to say that Git wouldn't have attained its current popularity

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if people hadn't been able to solve that problem.

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Fortunately for us, there's a simple installer available from the Git website.

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Let's walk through that installation and get you ready to follow along.

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At the time this video was recorded, this is what the official Git website looked like.

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It's located at git-scm.com.

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If anything looks different from my instructions here, be sure to check out the teacher's notes for this video for updated instructions.

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First, you can see that the website recognizes that we're on a Windows PC

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and directs us to the latest download for our system.

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Don't worry if you're getting a different version number here.

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All of the commands we're using in this lesson will work just the same.

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Let's click that button.

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This will download an installer package for us.

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Let's run that when it's finished downloading.

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We'll have to accept the license, choose an install destination—

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I'd recommend just leaving the default, but if you have any strong preferences, feel free to change it.

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This screen can be a little confusing.

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Let's leave it as is here.

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I'm also going to uncheck the Windows Explorer integration option

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just because we're not going to be using it,

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but feel free to leave that enabled or mess with any other options if you're comfortable.

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This option will determine where the Git commands are accessible from.

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I'd recommend using Git Bash only, unless you're aware of what the other options mean and have a preference.

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Without getting into too much detail, Windows and UNIX systems like Linux and Mac OS X

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have differing opinions about the way that files are formatted,

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and if you don't account for that, you can cause some major annoyances for your teammate.

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The first option here is the safest, so we'll go with that.

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Now the installer is going to do its thing.

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And here we go. All finished.

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We don't particularly need to see the release notes.

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This is what the Start menu looks like on Windows 8.

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If you have an older version of Windows, just open your Start menu and look for the Git folder.

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You'll note that we have 2 options here—

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Git GUI and Git Bash.

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Some people prefer to work in the GUI, which is fine,

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but we're going to focus on the command line for now,

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so we won't be using this tool.

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Definitely explore it later if it interests you, though.

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Git Bash, on the other hand, is a command line environment that emulates a UNIX system.

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This will enable you to use the Git command line interface.

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Try it out now by running git --version.

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This will also be compatible with almost every command that we run in our videos,

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including common UNIX commands like ls.

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There is, however, one important difference if you're planning to follow along in the videos.

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There will be some occasions where I edit files using the Nano text editor,

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and Nano will not be available on your system.

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Instead, I'd recommend using the ubiquitous Windows text editor Notepad.

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So every time I type nano followed by a filename,

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just type notepad followed by the filename, like so.

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And everything should be great.

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Hopefully your install went smoothly and everything is working.

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If not, be sure to post about your problem in the forums, and somebody should be able to help you get it taken care of.