I found a git 2.11.1 at <http://mackyle.github.io/git-osx-installer/>
but it does not talk to the other end running 2.33.x

Any suggestions as to why it fails silently?

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A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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