Git uses SSH keys to securely access your repositories, and in Windows SSH keys are often searched on the wrong path when you try to use Git. Important note: The most common problems when setting up Git on Windows are related to SSH keys. This is a compatibility measure to protect newlines in text files, allowing you to easily work with text files on Windows and on Unix-style platforms. When committing text files, CRLF will also be converted to LF. This option makes sure that Git converts LF to CRLF when checking out text files. When you reach the step “Configuring the line ending conversions”, make sure to leave the option “Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings” selected. You can run it by right clicking your mouse on the desktop, and selecting Git Bash from pop up window. With Git Bash you’ll be able to use a number of UNIX command line tools along with access to Git, and we recommend it since it’s often simpler to use than the Windows Command Prompt. The Git Bash tool works in the same way as the default Windows’ Command Prompt, but has some special features. You will notice that for the rest of this article we will use Git Bash for running Git commands. Command Prompt is a simple tool, where you can run commands, switch through folders, manage files and it can be ran by selecting Run… in Start menu, and executing cmd command. Choosing this option will make it easy for you to run Git commands from the Windows Command Prompt (command line) if you choose. When you get to the “Adjusting your Path environment” setting, select the “Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt” option. Once you have downloaded the msysGit executable, double click on it to start the installation wizard. We recommend installing msysGit because we’ve found it’s easier to work with than the Cygwin based installation. We will describe how to install the msysGit package.

There are two competing Git packages for Windows: a Cygwin-based Git and a version called msysGit. If you don’t have one already, create a Beanstalk account. This guide will take you through the steps to install and configure Git and connect it to remote repositories to clone, push, and pull. We’ve done the hard work and chosen between the multiple options at key steps to help make things easier for you. Setting up Git can be tricky on Windows compared to Linux or Mac, but if you follow the steps in this guide, you should have no problems using Git on Windows.

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