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I've just completed a fresh install of Mavericks. Then I went to git-scm.com and downloaded the Mac installer and installed Git from that.

Now whenever I go into the terminal and type git I get this:

xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', 
requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line 
developer tools.

I also this dialog:

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The git installer installed git into /usr/local/git/bin and I've added this to my PATH but still no dice.

What am I doing wrong here? I don't want to install xcode just so I can use git.

Giacomo1968
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Jan Hančič
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3 Answers3

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Just download the original git package. The installer will install git under /usr/local/git (you need to deactivate security options to run the installer).

There is a preinstalled git wrapper in /usr/bin used by Xcode which does not work without installing Xcode. You need to run /usr/local/git/bin/git explicit or change the PATH variable to contain /usr/local/git/bin before /usr/bin!

Create/edit your ~/.profile with the following:

PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
export PATH
Arne Burmeister
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1

For Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) add:

/usr/local/git/bin

As the first line to /etc/paths and remove /etc/paths.d/git file to avoid duplication. This will affect all users.

Giacomo1968
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igor
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Just set an alias so when you call the git command it calls the right one instead of the wrapper...

alias git="/usr/local/git/bin/git" 

Mac-mini:/$ git -version
xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.

Mac-mini:/$ alias git="/usr/local/git/bin/git"

Mac-mini:/$ git -version
Unknown option: -version
usage: git [--version] [--help] [-c name=value]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
           <command> [<args>]
Kevin Panko
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Rich Nason
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