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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"
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!