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Re: Automatic download at git-scm.com does not work (Was: Cant download Git)

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Nov 3, 2015, 13:15 UTC
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> On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git-I8vNd4LC5SeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 04:55:22 -0800 (PST)
> M Hendrickson <mkckkcm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to download Git. When I click download for Mac OS X it
>> says "download starting" but the download doesn't start.
>> 
>> There is a manual download option from sourceforge. But some have
>> warned me that downloading from sourceforge often contains unwanted
>> things included in the download.
> 
> That was a blunder of the (recent) past so I'd say it's OK to download
> directly from SF.  Note that the Mac OS X build accessible from
> git-scm.com, while being "officially blessed" is not prepared by the
> upstream Git developers (as they only distribute the source code) but
> rather this is a port coordinated there at that SF project you referred
> to.
> 
> Well, I've just verified that what would be automacitally downloaded
> has the same URL as that "download manually" link.
> So you should be fine with the manual download.
> 
>> Does anyone know why the download from git-scm.com is not working?
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