Git Installation: Mac OS X

Note: All lines in code blocks should be sequentially executed in Terminal.

Install Homebrew.

Homebrew is an OS X package manager that allows convenient installation of thousands of modules. If you haven't already, you'll want to install Homebrew so you can take advantage of its packages.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Be patient until Homebrew has completed installation.

Install Git.

Run the following command:

brew install git

This simple command will download, extract, and install the latest version of Git and its respective dependencies.

Verify Git is installed correctly.

Simply check the version and make sure no errors pop up.

git --version

If all is well, congratulations! You've successfully installed Git on Mac OS X.