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Downloading Git

Learn how to download Git from the official site.

Download Git from the Official Website

You can download Git from the official git-scm.com website. The download section offers options for different operating systems. Select your platform to download the appropriate installation file.

https://git-scm.com/downloads

Choosing a Platform

Git can be used on different operating systems. The download page provides separate options for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Choose the download link that matches your computer's operating system.

Windows  → Windows installer
macOS    → macOS download
Linux    → Distribution packages

Practice Build the Download Address

Assign Git's official download address to the downloadUrl variable. Then print this variable using console.log().

Starter code

terminal
// İndirme adresini bir değişkene ata

// Adresi ekrana yazdır

Sample solution

terminal
const downloadUrl = "https://git-scm.com/downloads";
console.log(downloadUrl);

Expected output

https://git-scm.com/downloads

Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Where should you download Git from?

  • From a web browser's extension store
  • From the official git-scm.com website Correct answer
  • From a random file-sharing website
  • From inside a text editor

Explanation: The official Git website reliably provides download options for your operating system.

2 Windows Download Option

Question 
const platform = "____";
console.log(platform);
Answer 
const platform = "windows";
console.log(platform);

Explanation: On a Windows computer, you should use the download option provided for Windows.

3 Download Options

Term Meaning
git-scm.com Git's official website
Windows Windows installer
macOS Mac computer platform
Linux Distribution-specific packages

All lessons in Beginner

1 What is Git?

  1. What is Git?
  2. Version control
  3. Distributed model
  4. Summary - What is Git?

2 Installation

  1. Downloading Git
  2. Windows install
  3. macOS install
  4. Summary - Installation

3 First repository

  1. git init
  2. The .git folder
  3. First file
  4. Summary - First repository

4 Configuration

  1. git config
  2. user.name and user.email
  3. Global and local
  4. Summary - Configuration

5 Staging

  1. Staging area
  2. git add
  3. Adding a single file
  4. Summary - Staging

6 Commit

  1. git commit
  2. Commit message
  3. Good commit message
  4. Summary - Commit

7 Status

  1. git status
  2. File states
  3. Short status
  4. Summary - Status

8 Log

  1. git log
  2. One-line format
  3. Changes with stat
  4. Summary - Log

9 Diff

  1. git diff
  2. Working vs staged
  3. Staged vs HEAD
  4. Summary - Diff

10 .gitignore

  1. What is .gitignore?
  2. Patterns
  3. Global ignore
  4. Summary - .gitignore

11 File lifecycle

  1. Untracked
  2. Tracked
  3. Deleting (git rm)
  4. Summary - File lifecycle

12 Viewing history

  1. git show
  2. File history
  3. Author and date
  4. Summary - Viewing history

13 Undoing changes

  1. git checkout
  2. git restore
  3. Unstage
  4. Summary - Undoing changes

14 Branch basics

  1. What is a branch?
  2. git branch
  3. git switch
  4. Summary - Branch basics

15 Merging

  1. git merge
  2. Fast-forward
  3. Three-way merge
  4. Summary - Merging

16 GitHub account

  1. What is GitHub?
  2. Creating an account
  3. SSH key
  4. Summary - GitHub account

17 First push

  1. git remote
  2. git push
  3. Upstream tracking
  4. Summary - First push

18 Cloning

  1. git clone
  2. HTTPS vs SSH
  3. After cloning
  4. Summary - Cloning

19 Pull

  1. git pull
  2. fetch vs pull
  3. Pull conflict
  4. Summary - Pull

20 Beginner final

  1. Set up a repository
  2. Commit flow
  3. Branch and merge
  4. Push to GitHub