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Installing GIT on OS-X In 3 Minutes

Mon, 03/10/2008 - 16:30.
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How to install GIT on OS-X in under 5 minutes:

curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz -O
tar xzvf git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz 
cd git-1.6.3.3
make configure 
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
NO_MSGFMT=yes make prefix=/usr/local all
sudo make install

Git should be installed on your OS-X now, which you can verify by issuing: git --version command in Terminal. However, it's a good idea to also pre-configure the default username and e-mail for your Git installation:

git config --global user.name "Your Firstname Lastname" 
git config --global user.email "username@example.com"
git config --global --list

I personally, also like to set:

git config --global color.ui "auto"
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Thank you!

Submitted by Kenny Meyers (not verified) on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 16:42.

I just wanted to say thank you. You made what seemed like an unbelievably complex process, simple.

Cheers,
Kenny

Thanks!

Submitted by Loren Johnson (not verified) on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 06:01.

Yes indeed, this worked ... all other casual attempts following other instructions on other blogs failed me, this got me there on Leopard happily ... and as promised in 3 minutes or under :)

Thanks much!

Loren

Very helpful

Submitted by Mark Reid (not verified) on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 07:15.

My thanks too. This got me closer to getting a full install than any other advice I've read.

Just in case anyone else had similar trouble to me getting git to compile under (a possibly messed up) version of OS X Tiger, here's the extra steps I had to take to get it to work after ./configure (Note: the install target in the Makefile calls all):


export NO_MSGFMT=yes
export NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=yes
sudo make LDFLAGS="-lobjc -L/usr/X11R6/lib/" CFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include/" prefix=/usr/local install

The second line avoids the Perl MakeMaker as it didn't work for me.

The -lobjc prevents the following error: ld: /usr/lib/crt1.o illegal reference to symbol: __objcInit defined in indirectly referenced dynamic library /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib.

Finally, the extra includes tells the make process to look for expat (required for git-http-push) in my X11R6 directory to avoid this error: expat.h: No such file or directory

I hope you don't mind me putting all this information here. I figure if other people try search for the same errors I had it would be useful if they found your tips and my additions here.

Exactly what I needed

Submitted by Patrick Berkeley (not verified) on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 19:40.

Thanks for posting this info for 10.4. Very helpful and worked perfectly!

Freakin' awesome!

Submitted by Allan L. (not verified) on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 12:38.

This worked like a charm!

I'm glad I spent a little more time googling around and found your simple instructions!

Thanks

Submitted by Ziemek (not verified) on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 04:18.

Nice! Thanks. Luckily there was no dependency issues.

Nice work!

Submitted by Darren (not verified) on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 21:33.

Thanks so much! Finally got git, and this was the easiest instructions I could find.

That saved my day, kudos to

Submitted by Vahagn (not verified) on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 15:43.

That saved my day, kudos to you!
/ Vahagn

Works like a charm on Snow Leopard

Submitted by Risto (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 14:01.

Macports failed when I tried to add the variant for git-svn, but this worked great for OS X 10.6 -- thanks!

Got en error

Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 20:17.

Got an error like this:

ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [git-fast-import] Error 1

I'm using OSX 10.6 updated from OSX 10.5

Did you actually install the dev tools?

Submitted by Andy (not verified) on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 21:52.

Because that symbol not found error makes me think you need to install the Developer Tools so that you actually get GCC and can then compile the source code.

Thank you for your reply. I

Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 06:49.

Thank you for your reply.

I installed the dev tools but I still get the same message.

This is another part of the log:

LINK git-fast-import
ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/libz.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/libcrypto.dylib, file is not of required architecture
Undefined symbols:
"_crc32", referenced from:
_crc32_begin in libgit.a(csum-file.o)
_sha1write in libgit.a(csum-file.o)
_check_pack_crc in libgit.a(pack-check.o)
_check_pack_crc in libgit.a(pack-check.o)

same issue here too on snow

Submitted by Gordon (not verified) on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 23:41.

same issue here too on snow leopard (upgrade from leopard). Any ideas?
and yes, i installed the Xcode package.

You have made a complex task

Submitted by backup dati (not verified) on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 16:26.

You have made a complex task very simple with your tool. I appreciate your efforts. Thank you for sharing your great blog with us.

the installation guide was

Submitted by Adam (not verified) on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 01:30.

the installation guide was excellent.i never thought it would take so little time

Well, took me more tahn 3

Submitted by Home Staging Toronto (not verified) on Sat, 10/31/2009 - 03:52.

Well, took me more tahn 3 minutes but without your help this would may take more than 10 hours, i was complety wrong with my method. Thanks so much for share.