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Installing GIT on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Update: Tim Harper points out in the comments there is now a fairly up to date OS X installer at google code if you would rather not deal with building it yourself. Easy! (You'll still want to do the configuration part at the end of this article, though, using the scripts starting at "alias g") Here's how I compiled Git source control on OS X Leopard.# GPG (if you didn't have it already)
curl ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.7.tar.bz2 tar xj
cd gnupg-1.4.7
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
# GetText
curl http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gz tar xz
cd gettext-0.17
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
# GIT
curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.tar.bz2 tar xj
cd git-1.5.5
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
curl http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.5.tar.bz2 \
sudo tar xj -C /usr/local/share/man
# alias "g" for "git"
cat >> ~/.profile << \EOF
alias g='git'
export PS1='$(git branch &>/dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then \
echo "\[\033[00m\]$(git branch grep ^*sed s/\*\ //) "; fi)\$\[\033[00m\] '
EOF
source ~/.profile
# you
git config --global user.name "Mr Man"
git config --global user.email "mr@man.com"
# colors
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.interactive auto
# shortcuts
git config --global alias.st status
git config --global alias.ci commit
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.br branch
# if you ever have conflicts you can type git-mergetool
# to use Apple opendiff (FileMerge) for resolving conflicts
git config --global merge.tool opendiff
# Whenever we merge provide a summary of commits
git config --global merge.summary true
# globally ignore some cruft files
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
echo "*~" >~/.gitignore
echo ".DS_Store" >>~/.gitignore
# setup nice fonts on gitk
cat >~/.gitk <<\EOF
set mainfont {Monaco 10}
set textfont {Monaco 10}
set uifont {Monaco 10}
EOF