Installing GIT on OS-X In 3 Minutes

How to install GIT on OS-X in under 5 minutes:

curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.1.tar.gz -O tar xzvf git-1.7.1.tar.gz cd git-1.7.1 make configure  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local NO_MSGFMT=yes make prefix=/usr/local all sudo make install 

Git should be installed on your OS-X now, which you can verify by issuing: git --version command in Terminal. However, it's a good idea to also pre-configure the default username and e-mail for your Git installation:

git config --global user.name "Your Firstname Lastname"  git config --global user.email "username@example.com" git config --global --list 

I personally, also like to set:

git config --global color.ui "auto"