Installing Homebrew with Git 1.8.4.2 (Mac OS X 10.7.5)

Question

I'm trying to install Homebrew on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5), via these two methods:

1. git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git. The error I get is:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git/': error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version

2. By downloading the .zip archive and running /usr/local/homebrew/bin/brew install wget. Same error:

error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert
protocol version while accessing https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

I'm using Git version 1.8.4.2 since I'm on a legacy version of OS X. Is there any way I can tweak the SSL settings to make this work?

TO REITERATE: I am unable to run git higher than 1.8.4.2 because I'm on a legacy OS X. Therefore, telling me to update to a newer version of git kinda shows you didn't read or understand the question in the first place.

Answer 1

Issue solved by using Tigerbrew.

Answer 2

Update your version of git to at least 2.16.3 due to security protocols removed by github.com