Installation of Git and Git LFS

Before using ARC Commander or ARCitect (except for Windows), Git and Git LFS must be installed.

Download and install Git and Git LFS

Please install Git and Git LFS.

Initialize Git LFS

After installation of Git LFS you must run the following command once to make sure Git LFS is initialized on your system.

git lfs install

Check your Git installation

To check, that Git and Git LFS are installed on your computer, open a new command prompt or terminal and execute the following two commands. These should display the installed version.

git --version

git-lfs --version

Configure Git

Git always signs “commits” with a user name and e-mail address. These are then also used by the DataHUB to associate the commits to your user account.

To add your user name and email address to the git configuration on your computer, run the following two commands in a command prompt or terminal. Make sure to replace “Your DataHUB Name” and “Your DataHUB Email Address” with your information from the DataHUB.

Your name

git config --global user.name "Your DataHUB Name"

Your email address

git config --global user.email "Your DataHUB Email Address"

Check your Git configuration

Run this command to display your user configuration

git config --global --get-regexp user