Homebrew is a new packager for Mac OS X. I installed it, and hey, it works! I tried it on a fresh (clean install) Snow Leopard machine. The installation instructions on git are a bit convoluted, so here's the abridged version: 1. Install XCode 2. sudo mkdir /usr/local 3. Drop the contents of the download in /usr/local 4. sudo chown -R `whoami`:staff `brew --prefix` I installed git this way: brew