Download and install GitHub for windows (‘git’ is not recognized as an internal or external command)

This GitHub tutorial, we will discuss how to download and install GitHub for windows. And also, we will check how to fix the error, ‘git’ is not recognized as an internal or external command.

By using GitHub, users can store code that always us and others to work together. GitHub is the place where we can host our code and is the version control platform.

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Download and Install Git

You can use the below link to download and install Git on your Windows machine.

• Git for Windows (64-Bit)
• Git for Windows (32-Bit)

Download GitHub for windows

Below is the place where you can download GitHub for windows.

• Download GitHub for windows
• download GitHub for macOS.

Install GitHub for Windows 10

Once you download, double click on the set up to start GitHub installation.

In the welcome screen, click on Next.

This will show the git installation path like below:

Then in the next screen select the required checkbox and click on Next.

Then leave the path as it is like below:

Then in the next screen select the default editor used by Git and click on Next.

Then in the next screen, How would you like to use Git from the command line and select “Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software” like below:

Then select use the OpenSSL library like below:

Then select “Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings” like below:

Then select Use MinTTY (the default terminal of MSYS2) like below:

In the next screen, select Enable Git Credential Manager like below:

Then click on Install button. And it will install Git in windows 10.

‘git’ is not recognized as an internal or external command

By default, without installing GitHub if you will try to run any git command in the command prompt like below:

git clone https://github.com/fewlines4biju/TSInfo.git

Then you will get error like below:

‘git’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

To fix git is not recognized as an internal or external command error, download and install Git for windows.

You can use the below link to download and install Git on your Windows machine.

• Git for Windows (64-Bit)
• Git for Windows (32-Bit)

This tutorial, we learned how to download and install github for windows and also, we checked how to fix error, git is not recognized as an internal or external command error which comes while running git commands in command prompt in Windows 10.