Installing GIT on OS-X In 3 Minutes

How to install GIT on OS-X in under 3 minutes:

curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.1.tar.gz -O
tar xzvf git-1.7.1.tar.gz
cd git-1.7.1
make configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
NO_MSGFMT=yes make prefix=/usr/local all
sudo make install

Git should be installed on your OS-X now, which you can verify by issuing: git --version command in Terminal. However, it’s a good idea to also pre-configure the default username and e-mail for your Git installation:

git config --global user.name "Your Firstname Lastname"
git config --global user.email "username@example.com"
git config --global --list

I personally, also like to set:

git config --global color.ui "auto"

How to Setting up the GIT

Setting Up

Now that you have the pre-reqs all ready, you can proceed with the install.  Open a terminal and cd into the directory where you want to install things.  Then type the following (or just copy and paste the items below):

git clone git://github.com/sproutit/sproutcore-abbot.git abbot
cd abbot
rake init
cd ..
git clone git://github.com/sproutit/sproutcore-samples.git samples
cd samples
mkdir -p frameworks
cd frameworks
git clone git://github.com/sproutit/sproutcore.git sproutcore
cd ../..

Add the path to abbot/bin to the beginning of your PATH to be able run the abbot command-line tools (sc-init, sc-server, sc-build, sc-gen, sc-manifest, sc-docs, and more) without having to enter the full path:
export PATH=`pwd`/abbot/bin:$PATH
Make sure you have configured your github account with SSH Keys and Username/Email (Without setting up the SSH key for your machine, you will get a permission denied error when trying to initialize the Git repository)
You should now have the full set of SproutCore tools running the latest Abbot-compatible code.