You can test if you have GIT installed on your system correctly by opening a command prompt and typing:
git --version
You should see something like “git version 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)”. Your precise message will depend on your operating system and what version of GIT you have. We generally only use the core functionality of GIT so having an especially up to date version isn’t super important.
If you have it - congratulations - you are done!
How do you install it if you don’t have it?
For linux like Ubuntu you might need to install it using:
sudo app install git
For Mac OS X, git comes with xcode command line tools.
For Windows you’ll need to install it using a windows installer:
It may be necessary to make sure that git is installed on your operating system path