Install Git from source on Snow Leopard 64 bit

There are many methods to get git running on Snow Leopard, this is the source approach.

Go to http://git-scm.com/ and download the latest package (1.6.4.3 as of writing).

Decompress it in a directory, and run this command:

make prefix=/usr/local all

kain-osx:git-1.6.4.3 kain$ lipo -detailed_info git
input file git is not a fat file
Non-fat file: git is architecture: x86_64

seems good, issue:

sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

to install.

test:

kain-osx:~ kain$ git --version
git version 1.6.4.3
kain-osx:~ kain$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git

Of course be sure that /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH.

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