Git for Windows Users

Here I am compiling information as a windows user that I needed or should have known while working with Git.

• CRLF Issues
  Git by default uses binary mode to transfer files.  On windows to prevent line break issues the option “core.autocrlf” can be used to convert CR+LF to LF automatically.

  ex. git config core.autocrlf=trueInformation on this option can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html

• Using Github
  To use Github from Windows you need to make sure you are using the most recent version of Git. This tripped me up before because whatever version I had did not have the ssh-keygen command.This guide page will help you http://github.com/guides/using-git-and-github-for-the-windows-for-newbies

I still have issues trying to push using Git to a network server, as does a Mac using coworker.  I think there is some configuration issue or Git just doesn’t work well across networks.

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