Eureka!!! After three days I've got GitHub functioning on my outdated mac snow leopard machine. First I couldn't install the GitHub GUI because I needed to upgrade to mountain lion, and then the https connection was failing because some error with a "git-remote-https requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libcurl.4.dylib provides version 6.0.0" so weird, but finally I got to be able to connect with SSH. I feel super amazing, I generated a public key with my machine and then shared it to GitHub and viola!
I'm now pushing and pulling files up to and down from the GitHub cloud. E-commerce project - get ready, I'm coming for you.
