3. How to install git and SmartGit on a Mac (a Drupal how-to)
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Here's a short excerpt from the video: "What we're going to do next is install Git on a Mac operating system and we're also going to install a graphic utility called SmartGit which is free for noncommercial use and will help us visualize some aspects of Git as we move through the Git tutorials. So what I'm going to do is do a search in Google for OS X Git and I'm going to click the topmost click which points to code dot Google dot com slash p slash git osx installer. From here I'm going to click in Downloads and at the top we have sev..."
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