Please complete the setup instructions given in this document before the start of the course.
To install Git, refer to the relevant section below depending on your operating system. If you already have Git installed, make sure it is a version >= 2.23.0.
Install Git using your distribution's official package manager.
- Ubuntu/Debian:
apt-get install git - Fedora/CentOS:
dnf install git
Download Git from the Git for macOS download page and follow the installation instructions.
Alternatively, if you are using the Homebrew package manager, you can also
install Git with brew install git.
Download Git from the Git for Windows download page and follow the installation instructions.
When the installation is complete, open the Git Bash application from the
Windows start menu. This application acts as a small Linux shell (terminal),
with Git and a few other basic GNU/Linux tools installed (e.g. the vim and
nano editors).
To test whether your installation was successful, try to run git --version.
GitHub is a commercial hosting platform for Git repositories, currently owned by Microsoft.
We will use GitHub for some of the course exercises, and you will therefore need a (free) account on GitHub to use during the course.
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If you do not already have a GitHub account, go to GitHub and create a new account.
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Add your GitHub user name to the "GitHub user names" table in the shared document used for the course (link to document communicated via Moodle). This is needed so that we can add you to projects used during the exercises.
🔥 Important: please do the above at the latest the day before the start of the course as it sometimes takes a bit of time before invitations to join a new project are sent out by GitHub.