I’m a recent convert to Git, and have had trouble finding decent installation instructions for Leopard. Here are the steps I followed to successfully install Git on Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard.

Prerequisites

1. The OS X Developer tools installed from the Leopard DVD
2. Download the latest Git source package from git.or.cz
3. Download the latest version of Gettext

Step 1: build and install Gettext

Gettext is required for building Git. If you don’t have it available, you’ll get an error such as:

<br /> Generating catalog po/de.msg<br /> msgfmt —statistics —tcl po/de.po -l de -d po/<br /> make1: msgfmt: Command not found<br /> make1: *** [po/de.msg] Error 127<br /> make: *** [all] Error 2<br />

First extract the archive:

<br /> tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/gettext-0.17.tar.gz<br /> cd gettext-0.17/<br />

Next, read any updated instructions and build it:

<br /> cat INSTALL<br /> ./configure<br /> make<br />

Finally, install it

<br /> sudo make install<br />

Step 2: build and install Git

These instructions are fairly similar, except for a small configuration setting. Again, extract the archive:

<br /> tar -xzvf ~Downloads/git-1.5.4.4.tar.bz2<br /> cd git-1.5.4.4/<br />

Next, read any updated instructions and build it. If you omit the --prefix setting, git will be installed into your ~/bin directory.

<br /> cat INSTALL<br /> ./configure –prefix=/usr<br /> make<br />

Finally, install it

<br /> sudo make install<br />

Once this is complete, you should be able to run it. Try this:

<br /> cd ~<br /> git<br /> usage: git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]</p> <p>The most commonly used git commands are:<br /> add Add file contents to the index<br /> bisect Find the change that introduced a bug by binary search<br /> branch List, create, or delete branches<br /> checkout Checkout and switch to a branch<br /> clone Clone a repository into a new directory<br /> commit Record changes to the repository<br /> diff Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc<br /> fetch Download objects and refs from another repository<br /> grep Print lines matching a pattern<br /> init Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an existing one<br /> log Show commit logs<br /> merge Join two or more development histories together<br /> mv Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink<br /> pull Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch<br /> push Update remote refs along with associated objects<br /> rebase Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head<br /> reset Reset current HEAD to the specified state<br /> rm Remove files from the working tree and from the index<br /> show Show various types of objects<br /> status Show the working tree status<br /> tag Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG<br />

That should do it!

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