Install Git binaries on Windows

Steps to install the Git binaries on a Windows operating system, in this case Windows 8.1.
Browse to https://git-scm.com/downloads and download the appropriate version for your operating system.

Click through the licence agreement.

Select the folder to install Git to.

Deselect “Associate .sh files to be run with Bash” as we’ll be using a separate instance of Bash to run the scripts. Click Next.

Click Next.

Click Next.

Click Next.

Click Next.
Choose your preference on terminal emulator and click Next.

Click Install.

Click Finish.

Now you can test that Git has installed correctly. Open a DOS command prompt and type “git”.

That’s all there is to it. This post will form part of a series where we get a Jenkins-based automated build process up and running.