[ANNOUNCE] Git Universal OS X Installer

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What is it?
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A universal installer for Git on OS X supporting Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later including PowerPC/Intel and both 32 and 64 bit.


Isn't there one already?
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Yes, there is another OS X installer for Git available. That one, however, did not meet my needs so I created this one and decided to share it in case anyone else has similar requirements.


Features
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* This installer includes PowerPC/Intel 32/64 bit binaries and runs on 10.4.8 or later. So if you're running PPC 10.5 on a G5 and need a 64- bit Git you're good to go.

* The Git translations ARE included and may optionally be chosen based on the System Preferences languages selection(s) instead of the LANG and related environment variables.

* Besides the man pages; the html docs, release notes, api, howto etc. docs are also included.

* This is a Secure Transport-based Git -- no OpenSSL is used. This means all root certificates (by default) come from the standard OS X keychain location(s). Both git imap-send and git send-email operate using Secure Transport in this build (via libcurl).

* git send-email, git imap-send and git instaweb work out-of-the-box with no additional software installation required.

* git subtree and git-credential-osxkeychain are included.

* A build of the curl command-line utility that uses Secure Transport is also included (may be optionally disabled in the installer) for convenience.

* A build of the GnuPG gpg utility (with docs) is included (may be optionally disabled in the installer) for signing/verifying convenience which also supports creating top secret strength RSA keys.

* A build of TopGit is included (may be optionally disabled in the installer) for patch management.

* Library headers are included (may be optionally disabled in the installer) for ease of building a custom Git against the same libraries the installed Git uses.

* Provides a complete solution for using Git on Mac OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x including full support for https/imaps/ftps/smtps TLS certificates which use the SHA-2 family of hash functions (such as SHA-256).

* Fully supports TLS 1.2 when run on a version of OS X with TLS 1.2 support (OS X 10.9 and later).

* Currently provides Git version 2.1.4 (with backports of the executable-config-file fix, reflog-reading fix and imap-send-via- libcurl patch). Installers for later versions of Git are planned.


Downloads
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Download links (and hashes) for the 11 MiB installer (a .dmg image) are available at:

  http://mackyle.github.io/git-osx-installer/


-Kyle
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