Git not working on snow leopard

Question

Successfully installed git on my Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.8), but cannot get any of the commands to work. Everything I type the terminal spits out illegal instruction.

For example:

git --version

Illegal instruction

Note: This download was tailored for Snow Leopard as seen in the readme file they provided. So I have no idea why this is such a pain.

NOTES ABOUT THIS BUILD
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* This build targets Snow Leopard and Lion. It may work on earlier or
later versions of OS X.

I have tried installing homebrew, but that doesn't work because it can't find Xcode which I also can't get on my computer.

Anyone know why git is not working on Snow Leopard?

Where did you get git from? To install Xcode, you need the install CD. — Alexander O'Mara, Jul 23 '14 at 00:41
You can dowload **Xcode** from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/ , please also read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14268887/what-is-the-illegal-instruction-4-error-and-why-does-mmacosx-version-min-10 — Krzysztof Safjanowski, Jul 23 '14 at 00:43
I got git from git-scm.com which redirected me to sourceforge. — MrPickles, Jul 23 '14 at 00:48
possible duplicate of [Git for Mac fails to launch: "illegal instruction"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22892890/git-for-mac-fails-to-launch-illegal-instruction) — Anton K, Sep 02 '14 at 18:14
This [1] worked for me. I successfully installed 1.8.4.2 on 10.6.8. — yaraeovento, Nov 05 '14 at 04:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '14 at 18:07

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It looks like you are running this on a Mac with a Core Duo processor. The git version you installed needs a Core 2 Duo.

answered Sep 02 '14 at 18:07

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