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aoxborrow
aoxborrow

Reputation: 48

are there any core differences in the various Git binaries available for OSX?

When you "Install Command Line Tools" from the Github.app, you get symlink'd Git binaries pointing inside the Github.app, like so:

/usr/local/bin/git -> /Applications/GitHub.app/Contents/Resources/git/bin/git
$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.1

Meanwhile OSX/Xcode has it's own flavor:

$ /usr/bin/git --version
git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37)

And of course the official distro:

/usr/local/git/bin/git --version
git version 1.8.3.2

Is there any appreciable difference in these binaries (beyond the point versions?). I just want the fastest version for a large repo.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (1)

Carl Norum
Carl Norum

Reputation: 224944

Release notes:

https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt

And in particular:

https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt

Which has the 'new since 1.7.12' you probably care about.

But why not use the most recent one?

Upvotes: 1

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