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#BEST GIT GUI TOOL WINDOWS INSTALL#

Let’s see how you would install git using Chocolatey. Watch the video to see another cool trick where you can open the command window in any open folder. Using keyboard shortcuts ( Windows key + X then C), I can have a command prompt open quickly and start using git right away.

I love this option because it is fast to set up (one liner) and with Windows 10’s new command console (it resizes and has copy/paste) I get the a great native experience. If you are in charge of setting up machines for developers on windows it is definitely worth a look. Chocolatey is very powerful and I use it in combination with Boxstarter to set up my dev machines. Chocolatey can install the software with a single command you don’t have to use click-through installers any more! If you are coming from Linux think of it as the apt-get/yum for Windows. If you have not heard of Chocolatey stop everything and go learn a bit more. It installs the same package before but in one line. This is my preferred way to install the Git for Windows on Windows 10.

confusing installer with lots of options.

BASH tools are only available in BASH prompt by default.

shell integration (right click to open BASH Promp / GUI).

I generally prefer to install this via a different option. If you want some more advance tooling then look to some of the other options. If you want just the raw tools then this is the installer for you. This option will install the git client, the windows implementation of BASH tools and a few Git GUI tools. Many of the other options listed are using Git for Windows (previously msygit) under the hood. Git For Windows is the foundation for running Git on Windows.

#BEST GIT GUI TOOL WINDOWS FOR WINDOWS 10#

Bash on Windows - In preview for Windows 10 (sign up for the Windows Insider to try it out today).

Your Favorite Git GUI - Visual Studio, Sourcetree, GitHub Desktop, GitKraken, etc.

Using Cmder - Great for older version of Windows.

Using Chocolatey - preferred way on Windows 10.

There are a few tasks ( sqaushing commits) that are easier on the command line and a few that are easier in a GUI (selecting single lines from multiple changes in a file for an atomic commit). I personally tend to end up installing git for command line usage and installing a GUI for more complex tasks. There are probably others but these are the ones that I tend to show developers. The Five waysīelow are the 5 basic ways to install git on Windows. There is a walk through video for each of the ways to install git on Windows coming soon. Be sure to let me know your favorite in the comments or if I missed one.

#BEST GIT GUI TOOL WINDOWS HOW TO#

At the end you should have a good idea of how to have a great experience with Git on Windows not matter what your scenario. There are many different ways to install and use Git on Windows and in this post I will cover 5 different ways and talk about the pro’s and con’s of each. Git is a major part of a developers work flow these days no matter what platform you work on.