Where should I download a free Git client for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)?
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A:
Since it looks like the pre-compiled version on Mac OS X are compiled for Leopard or later, you will probably have to compile it yourself, though you could download those and see if they work. You could download the source and compile it yourself, or you could install MacPorts and then run sudo port install git-core.
Brian Campbell
2010-09-27 03:32:16
A:
Probably the easiest way is to install Homebrew - http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
Then:
$ brew install git
==> Downloading http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.5.7.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/git/1.6.5.7
==> make install
==> Downloading http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.6.5.7.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
/usr/local/Cellar/git/1.6.5.7: 383 files, 16M, built in 74 seconds
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brendan
2010-09-27 03:36:32
Does this work on 10.4?
Dustin
2010-09-27 04:31:15
A:
By client, I assume you mean the GUI frontend for git, in which case I recommend gitx. It's quite nice for visualizations.
If you mean the command line tool, git, I recommend downloading from source (unless you have a profound need for a package manager). That requires you to download XCode, which installs a bunch command line tools needed to build from scratch. Just download git's source on the home page, cd in to the directory and:
./configure
make
sudo make install
and you're done!
Tim
2010-09-27 03:42:35
Are you sure you need XCode? Installing an IDE to use GCC seems a little obserd. However, I've never used Mac so I don't know if theres a better away.
mathepic
2010-09-27 21:02:39
Well, if you look at other solutions, like Homebrew, it requires XCode too. So, I'd just go ahead and install it. For **any** kind of development on a Mac, XCode is a must (not only for the tools).
Tim
2010-09-28 00:44:19