All versions of Mac OS X that were made to run on PowerPC systems (with the exception of Leopard) had a Mac OS 9 emulation layer called 'Classic'. It allowed Mac OS X to run Mac OS 9 applications that weren't updated to run natively on OS X (known as carbonization based on the Carbon API). I currently use OS 10.8.3 on my Mid-2012 13” 2.9 GHz i7 MacBook Pro, OS 10.6.8 on my Mid-2006 20” 2.16 GHz Core2Duo iMac, and 10.8.3 on my Mid-2012 2.4 GHz 12-core (dual 6-core) Xeon Mac Pro at work, and they are all very well maintained with DiskWarrior, Disk Utility, iDefrag, etc. But, this has always been an easily fixable problem. Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu; Apple; Shopping Bag +.
There are several options for installing Git on macOS. Note that any non-source distributions are provided by third parties, and may not be up to date with the latest source release.
Homebrew
Install homebrew if you don't already have it, then:$ brew install git
Xcode
Apple ships a binary package of Git with Xcode.
Binary installer
Tim Harper provides an installer for Git. The latest version is 2.27.0, which was released 4 months ago, on 2020-07-22.
Mac Os X 10.8 Download Free
Building from Source
Download Mac Os 10.8 2.0
If you prefer to build from source, you can find tarballs on kernel.org. The latest version is 2.29.2.