Terminal Command To Find What Version Of Git I Have Installed

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What is the terminal command to find the version of Git currently installed on my system?

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Yeah, simple - git --version (holds true for most applications)

If you get -bash: git: command not found when you run git --version it means git is not installed or it is not on PATH.

Make sure git is installed.
- Git is usually installed at /usr/local/git/
- Make sure there is a binary file where you installed git. If not, install git.
If git is installed, then it is mostly likely not on PATH
- Find the path where you installed it and do something like this to add it to the path and set in your profile:
  
  echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
- Then make sure you restart terminal before trying to run any git commands

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Cygwin/Git Bizarre Terminal Issue

OK, I think I've found a definite solution.

The problem is that, regardless of the terminal used (puttycyg, mintty, cmd.exe), Git by default, in the absence of better configured alternatives, tries to use a "simple password prompt" (as you can read in the description of core.askpass config option).

The simple password prompt apparently only works on real UNIX, but not on Cygwin.

The solution is to install an SSH_ASKPASS compatible program for Windows and configure Git to use it.

What I did was:

Install win-ssh-askpass application by unpacking and copying to C:\
Download and install the Borland Delphi 5 runtime required by win-ssh-askpass (hard to come by nowadays, but found one on http://www.satsignal.eu/software/runtime.html)
Configure Git to obtain passwords using win-ssh-askpass: git config --global core.askpass "C:/win_ssh_askpass.exe". Note that the EXE file has underscores in its name, not minus signs.
Remember to always place your login in the URL (https://<user>@<domain>/<repository>). Otherwise, Git will ask for the login before asking for the password, using the same askpass utility. You may unknowingly input your password as the login, which will be sent to the webserwer and logged in its access log as plain text!

Now Git asks for the password using an elegant GUI window and works regardless of the terminal used :)

Macos – getting git colors in OSX terminal

git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.ui auto

The global configuration is saved to ~/.gitconfig, which you can also edit directly with a text editor.

Refer to the manual of git-config for more options.

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