Beginner

This is a step by step guide to getting GIT working in Windows.
Note where I show a $ what follows is what you should type after the BASH $ command prompt.
I would recommend taking a look at this great set of video tutorials about git: http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html

Download and install git for Windows from http://git-scm.com/downloads
Signup for github.com to store your git repositories conveniently online at https://github.com/ (Micro service is $7/month at time of writing, 22/9/12) - Alternatively, https://bitbucket.org/ provides free private git repositories for up to 5 users
Download and install github for Windows from http://windows.github.com/
Sign into the github application with your github.com account, log in is at the top right of the application window
Create a new repository in the github application and make the first commits that the github application prompts you to make: .gitattributes and .gitignore

Configuring git on your local server

Make sure that git is installed on your server. I did this by installing the git web application in the Webfaction (my host) control panel.
Open the gitbash program – this will give you the $ command line
Add your name - $ git config --global user.name “Your Name”
Add your e-mail - $ git config --global user.email “your.email@example.com”

- Your new site's homepage will look like this.

- Look at the URL. This includes your site name.

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- Congratulations!!! You finished installing Drupal on your machine.

- Click on 'Visit your new site' link to view homepage of your site.

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- Here is most important page of Drupal installation process.

- As you can see there are few fields. Lets explore them one by one:

1. Site name: Here you can enter your website name but by default its 'localhost'.

2. Site e-mail address: This is an email id which is used by an organization to send their official emails. For ex.: info@companyname.com

3. Username: Name of core user is expected in this field. Best practice is to mention 'admin' in this field. Because admin has all the rights to manage the site.

4. E-mail address: Can be anything. You can provide your personal email id also.

5. Password: Admin password. Necessary for managing all site.

6. Confirm password: Confirm password for checking whether you typed it properly or not.

- Scroll down and click 'Save and continue' button.

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- After configuring database, you will see Drupal installation progress page.

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- Now you are at one of the most important step of Drupal installation.

- Do you remember, I told you to note down database name which we created in Step 7?

- On this page you will see 4 (four) different fields related to database. Lets go through them one by one:

1. Database Type: Select first option i.e. MySQL, MariaDB or equivalent

2. Database Name: In this example it's 'dbpractice'.

3. Database Username: I mentioned 'root' because mostly MySQL database accepts this username. It also signifies that you are the root user of this database. Also quite easy to remember (Isn't it?).

4. Database Password: Not a mandatory field so you can leave it blank if you want. But if you mention any password in this field then keep a record of it because if you forget this password then you cannot access your database.

- Click on 'Save and Continue' button.

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