{"thread":{"id":"31601","subject":"Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID","startedAt":"2012-09-19T05:59:43Z","lastAt":"2012-09-22T05:27:56Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Torsten Louland","Junio C Hamano","PJ Weisberg","Jeff King"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"199445","messageId":"954DDAEA-30AF-4203-BD49-3AB163E4EF58@telenet.be","threadId":"31601","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID","fromName":"Torsten Louland","fromEmail":"torsten.louland@telenet.be","sentAt":"2012-09-19T05:59:43Z","receivedAt":"2012-09-19T05:59:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"torsten.louland@telenet.be","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nInstalling latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked by Gatekeeper.\n\nCould you provide an installer for latest stable git that is signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it through?\n\nI upgraded to Mountain Lion and decided to update git as well, but only found out about the installer incompatibility after I'd run the uninstall script on my previous version.\n\nFor a while I was gitless and witless until I discovered you can bypass gatekeeper by opening the package with Installer.app - was just a bit stressful.\n\nCheers,\nTorsten Louland\n"},{"id":"199492","messageId":"7vr4pxhqb5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"31601","inReplyTo":"954DDAEA-30AF-4203-BD49-3AB163E4EF58@telenet.be","subject":"Re: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2012-09-19T17:31:58Z","receivedAt":"2012-09-19T17:31:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Torsten Louland writes:\n\n> Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked\n> by Gatekeeper.\n>\n> Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is\n> signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it\n> through?\n\nI am assuming that this is about the mechanism to block installation\nor execution of binaries obtained from outside the Apple store, and\nanything built from the source are exempt.\n\nIf that assumption is mistaken, please correct/educate me and\ndisregard the rest of the message.\n\nI release only the source tarballs and no longer do any pre-built\nbinaries (I used to do so only for RPM), and Torsten must be getting\na(n unsigned) binary from somewhere; the request needs to be given\nto whoever is supplying a pre-built binary for MacOS, but I do not\nknow who that entity is.\n\nWhoever you are, please speak up and help Torsten and fellow MacOS\nfolks.\n\nThanks.\n"},{"id":"199552","messageId":"CAJsNXTkeNWkd9yJZk04g52ktct8HdVD3tJGD=YhfQHyiQ7=trA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"31601","inReplyTo":"7vr4pxhqb5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID","fromName":"PJ Weisberg","fromEmail":"pj@irregularexpressions.net","sentAt":"2012-09-19T23:57:09Z","receivedAt":"2012-09-19T23:57:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pj@irregularexpressions.net","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/aa2c1edcc61b536cc5c9f37fbce084e655446e2309f9818d43f13d47304a602b?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> Torsten Louland writes:\n>\n>> Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked\n>> by Gatekeeper.\n>>\n>> Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is\n>> signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it\n>> through?\n[...]\n> Whoever you are, please speak up and help Torsten and fellow MacOS\n> folks.\n\nOne could argue that anyone whose system requires applications to be\nsigned with a key that the system owner does not possess is beyond\nhelp.\n\n-PJ\n\nGehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from\nmagic is insufficiently advanced.\n"},{"id":"199729","messageId":"20120922052756.GA5058@sigill.intra.peff.net","threadId":"31601","inReplyTo":"7vr4pxhqb5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2012-09-22T05:27:56Z","receivedAt":"2012-09-22T05:27:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:31:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n\n> Torsten Louland writes:\n> \n> > Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked\n> > by Gatekeeper.\n> >\n> > Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is\n> > signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it\n> > through?\n> \n> I am assuming that this is about the mechanism to block installation\n> or execution of binaries obtained from outside the Apple store, and\n> anything built from the source are exempt.\n> \n> If that assumption is mistaken, please correct/educate me and\n> disregard the rest of the message.\n> \n> I release only the source tarballs and no longer do any pre-built\n> binaries (I used to do so only for RPM), and Torsten must be getting\n> a(n unsigned) binary from somewhere; the request needs to be given\n> to whoever is supplying a pre-built binary for MacOS, but I do not\n> know who that entity is.\n> \n> Whoever you are, please speak up and help Torsten and fellow MacOS\n> folks.\n\nThe MacOS binary installer on git-scm.com is built by Tim Harper (cc'd).\nIt looks like there are both GitHub and Google Code repositories for it:\n\n https://github.com/timcharper/git_osx_installer\n\n https://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/\n\nYou might have luck submitting an issue there (I am not sure which one\nis the primary, but it looks like the Google Code site).\n\n-Peff\n"}]}