Installing Git on Windows with msysgit

By Robert Greiner on: 06 Jun 2010.

I wrote an article a while back showing you how to get started with Tortoise Git and and Cygwin on Windows.

It seems that people are starting to favor msysgit now since it is much more lightweight than the Cygwin route and Github recommends it.

The installation process for msysgit is extremely straightforward and an older tutorial is already available on Github. However, I figured that it would be a good idea to have an updated installation tutorial available to all the new gitters out there.

These are the installation options I used to install Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309.exe on Windows.

Note: You can enable the options to show a Git GUI or Bash shell if you want that option to be available every time you right-click on something in Windows Explorer. I just didn't want that much space taken up on my right-click menu.

And, that's it! Now you have Git installed on your Windows machine and can create your first Git repository or install Tortoise Git. Happy version controlling.