Error when trying to download zika pathogen repository

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Good Day

I am trying to download the zika pathogen repository. I have successfully managed to download Nextstrain, Augur and Auspice; however, I get an error after pasting ‘ git clone https://github.com/nextstrain/zika-tutorial’ on the command prompt. The error says git is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

How do you I navigate this issue?

regards

Lucinda

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Hi @lucindaG

We use GitHub and git to store and maintain our work:

  • GitHub is one of the websites for hosting git repositories online, such that many people can see, download and contribute to our work
  • git is a command line tool to manage git repositories on your computer

It is not mentioned in Zika tutorial, but it assumes that you have git installed. You can find necessary installation instructions and learning materials on the official git website.

Feel free to also check GitHub documentation here. They have excellent tutorials for both git and GitHub.

We should probably add this information to our Zika tutorial.

If you don’t want to deal with any of that, or have difficulties with git or GitHub, you can:

It will give you the latest contents of the repository, just like git clone does, except you won’t be able to do anything related to git there (for that, setup git and use git clone). But as far as I remember, this should be enough for Zika tutorial.