Tag Archives: git

Upgrading Git on MacOS X Lion

Posted on 2012/03/14 by Patrick

This was way harder than it needs to be, because MacOS X Lion ships with git 1.7.4.4 in /usr/bin.   Here’s a quick sequence of steps: Download and install latest version from http://git-scm.com/.   This appears to work but won’t … Continue reading →

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Pretending to Git Good

Posted on 2011/01/14 by Patrick

Git tries its darndest to be as hard as possible to use.   More than anything, it suffers from too-many-options-itis and correspondingly confusing options, often a warning flag for a programming language or tool.   But git’s core is good, … Continue reading →

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