Github releases a Mac OS X client

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATION TOOL Github has been extended to Mac OS X.

Github, a popular hosted collaboration tool used by software developers to manage software projects, has finally got a client for Mac OS X. Github Inc. announced that the release will also create a fork of the Chameleon library, which contains the modifications found for the Github Mac OS X client.

Github says that Mac users can expect the same functionality as users on other operating systems, including managing repositories, viewing commit histories, creating commits and viewing the diffs.

Although Github's Mac OS X client isn't open source, the outfit thanks the libgit2, objective-git and Chameleon projects for making its Mac OS X client possible.

Recently analysts revealed that Github has become the most popular source code repository, overtaking long-standing leader Sourceforge and similar systems from Google and Microsoft. The Git versioning system was invented by Linus Torvalds, who still uses it for the collaborative development efforts that produce new iterations of the Linux Kernel.

Github's Mac OS X client supports Mac OS X 1.06 64-bit installations. Of course there have been command line Git clients on Mac OS X for some time, so you don't need the luxury of a graphical user interface to use Git repositories for Mac OS X code. µ