Aha! Figured out that after installing on windows you don't go to a command line directly, you have to go through "Start > All Programs > Git > Git Bash" which gives you a different kind of command line.
Was able to set up my configuration settings as described in "The Book". Am now at the beginning of Chapter 2 "Installing a Repository in an Existing Directory" and trying to figure out how to drive the Git Bash over to my existing directory. I tried a "dir" which in a normal command line gives you a listing of the contents of the current directory, but that's giving me an "sh.exe": dir: command not found" error. "cd" seems to work, so I tried a "cd c:" but not sure I've gone into the root or not. Any way to list files in the Git Bash? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/ORaKXYZbarcJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.