Install Windows Utilities

To clone the samples used in the next section of this chapter, you’ll need to install the Git command line available at https://git-scm.com/downloads.

For Windows, install the Git Credential Manager to securely store credentials from http://bit.ly/gitcredentialmanager.

To SSH into a Linux server from Windows, you can install the popular Putty client from http://www.putty.org.

Developers using Windows 10 will soon be able to use Ubuntu and the Linux Bash shell directly from Windows, without the need to install command line utilities like SSH.

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