{"id":11036,"date":"2019-06-27T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2019-06-27T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:44:34","slug":"beginners-guide-for-git-setup-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/beginners-guide-for-git-setup-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners guide for Git Setup on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/internship-on-testing\/\">our internship program<\/a>, we encourage interns to make use of Git as a version control system due to a whole lot of benefits it provides, if you don&#8217;t know what Git is then you can read the blog &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/git-for-testers\/\">get started with Git<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Why this post?<\/h2>\n<p>During\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/internship-on-testing\/\">our internship program<\/a>, we have seen many fresh graduates struggling to get setup with Git and Git Bash on Windows system. So, I wanted to solve this problem by giving them a simple detailed set of instructions to get them quickly setup with Git on Windows system.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Instructions:<\/h2>\n<p>1. Download the latest Windows for Git installer from &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gitforwindows.org\/index.html\">this link<\/a><br \/>\n2. Run the downloaded Git setup exe file, we recommend keeping the default options provided by the wizard and complete installation<br \/>\n3. Once installation completes, Press Windows key and search for Git Bash and open it. You should see something like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gitbash.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11041\" src=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gitbash-300x95.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gitbash-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gitbash-768x244.png 768w, https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gitbash-1024x326.png 1024w, https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gitbash.png 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n4. Run the command to check Git version:<code>git --version<\/code> if it displays the version then your Git setup is successful<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Getting setup with Git on Windows was not that difficult, next you may try to clone and work on your favorite GitHub repository or use our open-sourced <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/qxf2\/qxf2-page-object-model\">qxf2 pom repository<\/a>\u00a0 . Do let us know in the comments below if this post helped you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of\u00a0our internship program, we encourage interns to make use of Git as a version control system due to a whole lot of benefits it provides, if you don&#8217;t know what Git is then you can read the blog &#8211;\u00a0get started with Git &nbsp; Why this post? During\u00a0our internship program, we have seen many fresh graduates struggling to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-git"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11036"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}