May 20, 2013 - In today's release of GitHub for Mac, you can now easily install Git for use on the command line, without needing to download any separate. In today’s release of GitHub for Mac, you can now easily install Git for use on the command line, without needing to download any separate packages. And whenever we update the version of Git included with GitHub for Mac, you’ll get the changes automatically – no work required on your part!

Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you’ve pushed your code to GitHub. Unzip for macbook. Today we’re happy to announce. What does it look like?

When you first launch GitHub for Mac, we’ll help you set up your GitHub account and find repositories already on your computer. From there, you can start managing repositories. Once you dive into a repository, you’ll be able to view the commit history just as you would on the web.

And you can of course dive in to a specific commit to see the diff and perform some operations. Once you’ve made some changes, you’ll be able to create commits. When you want to change branches quickly, press ⌘ + B and a branch selector will show up. Changing branches automatically stashes any changes until you switch back to the branch — switch branches with wild abandon. If you need to publish branches to GitHub, create a new branch, merge branches, or delete branches switch on over to the branches tab. Once you’re ready to share your commits, or pull in remote commits — just press the Sync Branch button. We’ll perform a smarter version of pull --rebase && push that reduces merge commits but doesn’t rewrite your merges.

Automatic updates Once you download GitHub for Mac, we’ll send out updates and the app will automatically download them. Keep an eye out for a little upgrade notice with a list of changes. Behind the curtains GitHub for Mac wouldn’t have been possible without some awesome open source projects: • powers much of the Git operations for the app, making every interaction smooth, responsive and fast.

• libgit2 bindings bridge the gap between Cocoa & libgit2. • powers a good portion of the GUI. We’re working with the Chameleon guys to get our changes into the main project, but in the mean time you can check out with all our modifications.

Just the start This is just the beginning — we’re really stoked for the future of GitHub for Mac and hope you will be too.

In today’s release of, you can now easily install for use on the command line, without needing to download any separate packages. And whenever we update the version of Git included with GitHub for Mac, you’ll get the changes automatically – no work required on your part! After updating the app, you may notice some changes to the Preferences window. On the newly renamed “Advanced” tab, simply click “Install Command Line Tools”: You’ll be prompted for an administrator password so that Git can be installed into /usr/local/bin, and then you should very shortly see that it succeeded: If you’re using GitHub for Mac for the first time, and want to install Git, you can also set it up from the welcome screen: Once installed, you can open up Terminal.app and run git commands to your heart’s content. Command line aficionados, rejoice!