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Re: mac osx

From
Kyle Neath <kneath@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2011, 03:40 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM, tom smitts <tomsmitts@ymail.com> wrote:
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> Do the git maintainers really think any mac users have
>  a clue which git install package to download?  You
> put some arcane chipset designation in the package
>  name!  Why make mac installers at all?  Mac users
> know their operating system number, e.g. 10.6.7,
> and that's all.  I doubt Windows users know any better.
> And I doubt you can find anywhere on a mac that says
>  i386 or whatever the heck the other dumb
> designation is.

Yikes! That's definitely not good. I'll see what we can do about updating git-scm.com to point to a more reasonable installer for OSX. I haven't clicked that link in a long time and had no idea it was so confusing.

I've created an issue so we can track it, if you'd like to follow along: https://github.com/schacon/gitscm/issues/16

Kyle Neath Director of Design, GitHub

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Message 4 of 13 in “mac osx”
  1. tom smittsSep 20, 2011
  2. Graham ChristensenSep 20, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2011
  4. Kyle NeathSep 21, 2011
  5. Sverre RabbelierSep 21, 2011
  6. Timothy HarperSep 21, 2011
  7. Scott ChaconSep 21, 2011
  8. Sverre RabbelierSep 21, 2011
  9. Stephen BashSep 21, 2011
  10. Timothy HarperSep 21, 2011
  11. Scott ChaconSep 21, 2011
  12. Timothy HarperSep 21, 2011
  13. Sverre RabbelierSep 21, 2011

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