Setup GitHub and Git

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Installing Git

MacOS User

1. You may already have git preinstalled, please run

   git --version
   

   to verify. If it return a version, then you are good to go. If not please continue.
2. To install Git, we will use brew. You should check if you already have brew before installing it.

   brew --version
   

3. If you already have brew installed jump to step 5 Copy and paste the following into the terminal, then hit return(enter)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

4. Brew will then gives instructions for you to run 3 lines in the terminal. Run it! Below is an example but my 3 lines will be different from yours 5. Use brew to install git by running in the terminal

brew install git

6. Test if your git is ready

git --version

Window User

1. Test if git is installed by first run

   git --version
   

   to verify. If it return a version, then you are good to go. If not please continue.
2. Go to Git for Windows and click download (in the picture below)
3. Install the git by click into the downloaded file, then a bunch of "Next","Install", and "Finish"
4. Test if git is successfully installed by close and reopen Command Prompt. Then run:

   git --version