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Git Installation

Verify

$ git --version

# If git is installed locally, you'll see something like 
# git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)

Installation

If you have XCode installed on Mac, Git may already be installed.

Option 1: (preferred)
If you have brew (Homebrew) installed already
$ brew install git

Option 2:
If not, download and run the installation from http://git-scm.com/download/mac

Linux
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$ sudo dnf install git                // RPM-based distribution like Fedora, RHEL or CentOS
$ sudo yum install git                // for older versions of Fedora
$ sudo apt-get install git            // Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu
These are basic package management tools that comes pre-installed