Building Git on Leopard

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So you want to use Git for distributed version control. For Mac OS X 10.5 there are a couple of options for installing Git.

• Fink packages an almost up-to-date version, named simply git
• MacPorts packages an up-to-date version as git-core

Either of these methods, though, installs lots of dependencies. Which requires lots of compile time. And lots of disk space — especially for the MacPorts version.

So I prefer to compile Git myself — and use Fink for dependencies. Here’s how I do it.

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Building Git on Centos 5

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So you want to use Git the latest hotness in distributed version control. It builds easily using the instructions in the INSTALL file.

But on Centos 5 (or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) there are some dependencies to install first:

sudo apt-get install gettext-devel expat-devel curl-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel

From here the instructions in Git’s INSTALL file work just fine…

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