Git for Mac fails to launch: “illegal instruction”

Question

...I\'ve looked pretty carefully (I believe), and have been unsuccessful at getting an installation of Git for my Mac.

For various reasons, I\'m running 10.6.8 of Mac OS

Answer 1

Yes, I've had the same exact problem, and what I did is installed an earlier build from here: https://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/

I'm running 10.6.8 and installed the newest build there, 1.8.4.2

SourceForge only has 1.9.0 and 1.8.5.2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/reviews?source=navbar

Someone on the reviews said they had trouble with both and went back to 1.7. I would try that if 1.8.4.2 doesn't work.

I was able to run the config commands without an illegal instruction error, at least.