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Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID

Subject: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID

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4 messages between Sep 19, 2012 and Sep 22, 2012.

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Torsten Louland· Sep 19, 2012, 05:59 UTC · lore

Hi,

Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked by Gatekeeper.

Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it through?

I 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.

For 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.

Cheers, Torsten Louland

Junio C Hamano· Sep 19, 2012, 17:31 UTC · re: Torsten Louland · lore

Re: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID

Torsten Louland <torsten.louland@telenet.be> writes:

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> Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked
> by Gatekeeper.
>
> Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is
> signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it
> through?

I am assuming that this is about the mechanism to block installation or execution of binaries obtained from outside the Apple store, and anything built from the source are exempt.

If that assumption is mistaken, please correct/educate me and disregard the rest of the message.

I release only the source tarballs and no longer do any pre-built binaries (I used to do so only for RPM), and Torsten must be getting a(n unsigned) binary from somewhere; the request needs to be given to whoever is supplying a pre-built binary for MacOS, but I do not know who that entity is.

Whoever you are, please speak up and help Torsten and fellow MacOS folks.

Thanks.

PJ Weisberg· Sep 19, 2012, 23:57 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Torsten Louland <torsten.louland@telenet.be> writes:
>
>> Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked
>> by Gatekeeper.
>>
>> Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is
>> signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it
>> through?

[...]

> Whoever you are, please speak up and help Torsten and fellow MacOS
> folks.

One could argue that anyone whose system requires applications to be signed with a key that the system owner does not possess is beyond help.

-PJ

Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Jeff King· Sep 22, 2012, 05:27 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: Git 1.7.12 installer blocked by Gatekeeper - needs signing with an Apple developer ID

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:31:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Torsten Louland <torsten.louland@telenet.be> writes:
> 
> > Installing latest stable git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion is blocked
> > by Gatekeeper.
> >
> > Could you provide an installer for latest stable git that is
> > signed with an Apple issued developer ID so gatekeeper will let it
> > through?
> 
> I am assuming that this is about the mechanism to block installation
> or execution of binaries obtained from outside the Apple store, and
> anything built from the source are exempt.
> 
> If that assumption is mistaken, please correct/educate me and
> disregard the rest of the message.
> 
> I release only the source tarballs and no longer do any pre-built
> binaries (I used to do so only for RPM), and Torsten must be getting
> a(n unsigned) binary from somewhere; the request needs to be given
> to whoever is supplying a pre-built binary for MacOS, but I do not
> know who that entity is.
> 
> Whoever you are, please speak up and help Torsten and fellow MacOS
> folks.

The MacOS binary installer on git-scm.com is built by Tim Harper (cc'd). It looks like there are both GitHub and Google Code repositories for it:

  https://github.com/timcharper/git_osx_installer

  https://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/

You might have luck submitting an issue there (I am not sure which one is the primary, but it looks like the Google Code site).

-Peff