Like many other tools, Git can be downloaded from the Internet and the best part is it's free, thanks to the open source community. Git can be installed on a variety of operating systems such as Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. We will consider the top three operating systems in terms of user base in discussing our concepts:
Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
To start, you need to download your operating system specific Git package; we can get the list of downloadable packages from http://git-scm.com/downloads. Go ahead and download the latest stable release relevant to your OS, which you can find on the website, as shown in the following screenshot (Version 1.8.0.2 was the latest stable release at the time of writing this chapter):