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Commitmas 2: A Month of Merriment

Challenge 2 - Setup your Windows PC to use with GitHub

By Jonathan Frappier, recording available.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. The Challenge
   • Step 1
   • Step 2
   • Step 3
   • Step 4
   • Step 5
3. Resources
4. Projects

Overview

To full participate in #Commitmas, you will need to have a working environment to work with repositores and associated files. In this challege, Windows users will setup Git and VisualStudio Code to use as their markdown editor.

The Challenge

Step 1

From an elevated command prompt, install the chocolatey package manager for Windows

Step 2

Using choco, install the git and visualstudiocode packages

Step 3

Add the bin directories for each package to your environment path and restart the elevated command prompt

Step 4

Configure git: global settings, ssh-keygen, and add your public key to your git profile

Step 5

Clone a repo

Resources

Chocolatey.org Virtxpert.com