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:
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.
Best Answer
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: