Git on OS X 10.5

What?

Git on OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Why?

Git is YARC (yet another revision control system) with some outstanding differences. You can find out for yourself just what those are, but as a hint git is written by Linus Torvalds who hates CVS and SVN - "a bad idea and its bad fix walking hand in hand."

So what does git have going for it?

• Distributed repositories - you don't need to rely on a central host
• Branching made easy - in the same spirit, code branches is a breeze
• Speed - it's just that much faster
  

How?

So you want it - now how do you get it?

Thanks Wincent.com for the seamless installation script. Just copy the text, paste it into the terminal, and stick around to watch it all happen (and type your password at sudo time.

More configuration scripts are also available, as well as an introductory tutorial.

# build expat dependency
curl -O http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
cd expat-2.0.1
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
cd ..

# build GPG for signature verification
curl -O ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.7.tar.bz2
openssl sha1 gnupg-1.4.7.tar.bz2
tar xjvf gnupg-1.4.7.tar.bz2
cd gnupg-1.4.7
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
cd ..

# copy GPG files from Tiger install
mkdir -m 700 ~/.gnupg
cp ${PATH_TO_TIGER_HOME_FOLDER}/.gnupg/*gpg* ~/.gnupg/

# git
curl -O http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2 \
  -O http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2.sign
gpg --verify git-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2.sign git-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2
tar xjvf git-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.2.4
make prefix=/usr/local all
make prefix=/usr/local test
echo $?
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
cd ..

# manpages
curl -O  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2 \
  -O http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2.sign
gpg --verify git-manpages-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2.sign git-manpages-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/share/man -f git-manpages-1.5.2.4.tar.bz2