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POEasy Git Starter for Windows?
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copied!<p>I really need to understand how to use git on Windows, but all the guides are too complex. For example, I understand we need to use a command line for git. But when I open a command prompt in Windows using "cmd.exe", where do I go? Do I navigate to the folder where git is installed? What is "git bash"?</p> <p>Why do all the examples on the Internet have this $ sign in front? How do I add an existing folder to git version control? What does "checkout" mean? I keep hearing about a tool called "powershell". What does it do and how is it different from a DOS prompt?</p> <p>To use the "git" command I'll probably have to add it to my environment variables so the computer can find it and I get "'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."</p> <p>I've never used a version control system for my programming before - I've just saved folders with numbers in front of them so far and I need to use git to publish a project folder I have on Amazon AWS Beanstalk.</p> <p>I basically just want to add a folder to git and save changes regularly so I have a back up of all the stuff I've done before.</p> <p>Edit: Is git a single program, or are there many "gits". The first result for "git" in google takes me here: <a href="http://git-scm.com/" rel="nofollow">http://git-scm.com/</a> and yet lots of people talk about something called "msysgit". Is this a different git application?</p> <p>Edit: I'm looking more at a command line for Windows tutorial. It's here that I'm having the most trouble.</p>

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