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Git is primarily known as a unique free source code distributed version control system that can easily store all kinds of projects, big or small. Any new developer or someone who is new to it can understand it quickly and easily.

We can install Git on most common operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Mac. On most Mac and Linux machines, Git is already installed by default.

Using the latest version of Git provides us with more convenience than the older version. Git version should be kept up to date; it is essential and beneficial for us as it provides us with all the latest and new features, improvements, bug fixes, and more.

Always, you should try to update to the latest version of Git, as the latest version will provide you with the most accurate environment with the latest changes done in it.

In this article on checking the latest version of Git, we will learn how to check the Git version on your local personal computer or any server. Below you can find detailed information related to checking the current Git version on your computer.

Check Git version

To determine the Git version or check if it is installed, we have to open our terminal application on our personal computer.

1. If you are currently using a Mac, you must open a command prompt application called Terminal from your computer's search engine.
2. If you are using a Windows machine, you will have to look for Windows Command Prompt or Git Bash from your computer's search engine.

After successfully opening the terminal on your computer, you have to execute the basic Git commands in the terminal, execute git version in the opened terminal, it will display the current version on the screen or terminal.

git --version

The output of the above command may be in the following two ways.

1. Either it will tell us which version of Git is installed on our computer. If we feel it is not the Git compatible version we want, we will update the Git version using the appropriate update method.
2. Or it will alert that Git is not available and it is an unknown command. If it says unknown command, we will first install it from scratch in the local environment, and then we will start a project, and we will collaborate with the team in the future.

Summarize

So, we have learned to check the Git version using Git command line in this article, if our operating system does not have any version listed, that means we need to install Git and start using Git later.