Maybe.  github recommends 1.7.1 or newer (http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html).  I don't have any older git 1.6 version to try with - sorry.  



On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> wrote:

On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:31 AM, Adam King wrote:

> Seems fine here:
>
> flynn:tt aking$ git --version
> git version 1.7.9.6 (Apple Git-31.1)

Thanks, do you think my version of git might be too old?

leibniz-240% git --version
git version 1.6.1

This is on a box running an old RHEL.

Brad