Getting started with Git and GitHub

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• Register with GitHub to create an account
• Download and install git client for Windows or GitHub for Windows or Tortoise Git

(if asked, Choose Checkout-as-is; commit unix style line-endings)

During setup ensure you have selected "Git from the command line and also 3rd-party software" (do NOT add the optional Unix tools to your PATH). If sh is added to the PATH, Make will try to compile for Linux rather than Windows. This will cause syntax errors when reading the Makefiles (such as parse errors whenever a ( is found in an echo message).

• Set you username and email address via the command line:

git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"
git config --global user.email "YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"

(Or from TortoiseGit, select "Setting->Git" and select "global" and enter your details.)

• Set a default commit editor (not needed for TortoiseGit):

git config --global core.editor "start notepad++"

• Set line-handling and passwords (Windows):

git config --global core.autocrlf true
git config --global credential.helper wincred

• Set line-handling and passwords (Linux):

git config --global core.autocrlf input

• Check submodules have been pushed before allowing an update of the master index

git config --global push.recurseSubmodules check

• You may now need to consider "First time installing and building"