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Installation of Git and Git LFS

In order to use the ARC Commander, Git (version ≥ 2.32.0) and Git LFS must be installed on your computer.

Download and install Git and Git LFS

Section titled Download and install Git and Git LFS

Please install Git and Git LFS

  • On Windows Git LFS may already be installed during your Git installation
  • For macOS we recommend to install via homebrew as described on the site above

Check your Git installation

Section titled 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.

Terminal window
git --version
Terminal window
git-lfs --version

Initialize Git LFS

Section titled 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.

Terminal window
git lfs install

Configure Git

Section titled 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.

  1. Your name
Terminal window
git config --global user.name "Your DataHUB Name"
  1. Your email address
Terminal window
git config --global user.email "Your DataHUB Email Address"

Check your Git configuration

Section titled Check your Git configuration

Run this command to display your user configuration

Terminal window
git config --global --get-regexp user