Git for Windows and command lines.

Been awhile! Last semester was way busier than I was anticipating, but I’m trying to make a better time management plan for this spring.

To start, I wanted Git for Windows on my work computer. So far the process has been different from what I remember about how I got it on my personal computer. To get it on my personal computer I used Erdös Institute’s instructions and downloaded it from https://git-scm.com/download/win. For my work computer, it was several days ago, I think what I did was a Bing search (I thought I should use Microsoft Edge on my work computer, I guess because it has the whole Microsoft Office suite and I thought just using all Microsoft products would be easier as long as I have them?) and downloaded it from https://gitforwindows.org/. From what I can tell, the downloads are the same–

UPDATE: This post was going to be about how I can use Git in the command line on my personal computer but not on my work computer, and what I was going to do about it. Turns out I _can_ use Git in the command line on my work computer, I just wasn’t in the right directory! I feel silly, but at least I’ve been assured that the universe does make sense.

OK, but something else I wanted to explore with Git for Windows. The download comes with Git Bash, which I think is an emulator for Bash, the command line on Linux operating systems. I am not at all proficient with Linux, it seems like this is a good opportunity to learn a little. Alternatively, I have in my to-do list of skills to build, getting more familiarity with the Windows command line. Right now I know just enough to push to and pull from my Github repositories. Could I work on both?

Written on January 23, 2024