Git 1.5.4.2 is released!
Posted by sam, Sun Feb 17 23:00:40 UTC 2008
Junio Hamano released Git 1.5.4.2 today
It looks like a good stable release, fixes a lot of bugs, etc. Full release notes are located here.
Most of the open source software I use these days I install from Macports. Unfortunately, the Git port is several versions back (1.5.3.7, to be specific.).
I like being on a more recent version of git, so I updated from source.
All you need to do is go to the directory where you have git installed (assuming you have the Macports version of git installed already and do )
git co master
git pull
make prefix=/usr/local
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
One thing I don't like doing is building the documentation from source. You have to install all sorts of additional packages, like docbook and asciidoc, to get it all to work. It also takes forever! I would simply just download the tarballs and extract them to a convenient location.
