June 9, 2009
Installing Git

In the last link suggested the author used macports to install/update git, I prefer to compile it from source, it’s a really simple and quick operation!

First we need to download the source:

$ curl -O http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.2.tar.gz

Now we expand the archive:

$ tar xfvz git-1.6.3.2.tar.gz

enter in the new directory:

$ cd git-1.6.3.2

and prepare everything:

$ ./configure && make && sudo make install

(it will ask the password)

Now we have a fresh install of git! If you want to check it you can do:

$ git --version

git version 1.6.3.2

That’s all! :)