alternative source for installing git. brew install git; kernel.org Down for maintenance

Question

i just noticed that kernel.org is Down for maintenance. is there a different formula which uses a different mirror ? or could i add a different source (like bundler?) to hom

Answer 1

the HTML docs are available here:

  http://mirror.linux.org.au/software/scm/git/

Answer 2

I found out that freesbie.net was down when trying to install the manpages but you can use

url 'http://distfiles.macports.org/git-core/git-manpages-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2'

instead of

url 'http://ftp.uk.freesbie.org/sites/ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/git-manpages-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2'

Answer 3

Had an issue with git-htmldocs url, kept getting connection reset by peer.

Noticed that the files were downloaded and kept in /Users/vish/Library/Caches/Homebrew

So just downloaded git-htmldocs-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2 from here and moved it into the directory.

Answer 4

Git source is also mirrored on github (I forget where off the top of my head, but a quick search will find it)

Answer 5

Updated for 2015: The solution is much simpler asssuming you have ruby.

@Sharpie added mirror support several years ago. The top answer here is more work than necessary. Do this instead:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

And then:

brew install git

Answer 6

I had trouble resolving the link to the git-manpages. The manpages are also available at the above git-htmldocs url.

url 'http://ftp.ntu.edu.tw/ftp/pub2/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2'