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Git is not supposed to shine on OS X. Git was written with the Linux kernel and subsystem in mind. OS X is UNIX, but it is not Linux. Try Mercurial. Git's piss
by Locke1689 17y ago
Git is not supposed to shine on OS X. Git was written with the Linux kernel and subsystem in mind. OS X is UNIX, but it is not Linux.
Try Mercurial. Git's piss-poor cross platform support has all but removed it from my development routine. Well, that and I find Mercurial's interface far more comfortable to work with.
- pak 17y agoHow does git not shine on OS X? Installed via Fink or DarwinPorts, I can't find any area in which it doesn't perform equivalently to the linux builds. There is also the lovely GitX on OS X for visualizing repos and staging commits.
- bsergean 17y agoYep, and compiling git is a piece of cake (on machines with a decent gcc).
- pgbovine 17y agoagreed, i totally hate going thru dependency hell, but on any OS X, if you install the developer tools from the installation DVD, that will give you gcc and the basic libs you need to compile git with no problems. ./configure; sudo make install