From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:34:59 GMT Subject: Re: mac osx Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Heya, [+timcharper, owner of the git-osx-installer project] On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:40, Kyle Neath wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM, tom smitts wrote: >> 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 -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier