...I've looked pretty carefully (I believe), and have been unsuccessful at getting an installation of Git for my Mac.

For various reasons, I'm running 10.6.8 of Mac OS X and will not be changing that anytime soon.

I've already gathered and installed the bundle exposed here:

<https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git>

The installation instructions are pretty clear, and it's obvious to me that the package installed. But any attempts to use the git client from the command line result in an "Illegal Instruction" error.

I've sifted pretty carefully through information available here:

<http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git>

There is another bundle that seems to be available. It is called "GitHub for Mac 1.7.5, but it appears to require Mac OS X 10.7 or later.

Has anyone else encountered this difficulty? Must I build from source? 

I'm a couple of hours of reading and hacking into this effort? Is there something obvious that I've not considered?