This was very helpful and clearly documented. Thanks!

Also, your github profile picture is amazing.

Thanks for this. Might want to move the original /usr/bin/git out of the way, rather than outright deleting it, juuuuust in case you end up needing the original binary.

/usr/bin/git is usually a soft symlink, so the original binary is still there when you rm the synlink. You can see the actual location by doing

    ls -al /usr/bin/git

If it's not in fact a symlink then yes you should probably rename it to preserve it.

Yosemite, mine is not

Thanks - really appreciate the signature checking phase. To make sure I had a working git in case all went wrong I added:

sudo mv /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git2

before the symlink.

Beautiful, cheers for this!

Worked for me.

Thanks!