GIT commands
Git command Flow: Setup: git config --global user.name “[firstname lastname]” set a name that is identifiable for credit when review version history git config --global user.email “[valid-email]” set an email address that will be associated with each history marker git config --system core.longpaths true Git has a limit of 4096 characters for a filename, except on Windows when Git is compiled with msys. It uses an older version of the Windows API and there's a limit of 260 characters for a filename. So as far as I understand this, it's a limitation of msys and not of Git. You can read the details here: https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/110 Setup & Init: git init Initialize an existing directory as a Git repository git clone <repository_url> retrieve an entire repository from a hosted location via URL git clone <URL...