Would it be possible to sign the package? about git_osx_installer HOT 4 OPEN

You know, I'm sure that Apple would be willing to grant a free cert here. Do you have any contacts over there?

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The certificate is free, AFAIK. Just the ADC membership isn't ;-)
That said, upon reading the guidelines, I'm not sure if the installer in its current form would pass the App Store requirements anyway.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/mac/
Distribution outside the App Store would probably still be OK - but you lose the App Store revenue stream of course.
I don't have a membership myself (because I don't build software for Macs), so I can't help you here.

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It could be made app-store compliant. I contacted a friend of mine at Apple and he's going to ask around.

App store distribution of Git could be a great thing. The installer could just modify your bash profile, not system-wide settings.

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That would be great indeed. Apple does deliver git with X-Code (well, I assume so, because I have it installed and it calls itself "git version 2.3.2 (Apple Git-55)").
But a more often updated version would sure please a lot of people.
Last but not least, we really shouldn't teach people overriding OS-level default security warnings. That's just a bad thing. Regardless of the whether we "like" the particular policy of specific vendors or not.
The fact that you and I can actually make informed decisions about that is almost irrelevant considering that literally millions of others can't.
Anyway, thanks for your efforts, whatever the outcome.

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