How to upgrade Git to latest version on macOS?

Question

I just bought a new Mac with OS X Lion and I checked in the Terminal what version of git is installed by default. I got the answer

git --version
> git ver         


        

Answer 1

The latest version was not available as a binary for mac on git-scm.com, so I installed from source. I was missing a required package for localization, and added NO_GETTEXT=true to install without localization.

git clone https://github.com/git/git.git
cd git
make NO_GETTEXT=true
make NO_GETTEXT=true install

This installed git under ~/bin which I then had to add to the beginning of my PATH variable.