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Captain Cold
Captain Cold

Reputation: 189

How to uninstall Git (Apple Git-75) from Mac?

I am unable to uninstall Git from my Mac. I am running macOS Sierra. I have tried all solutions available, but can't seem to figure out how to uninstall Git from my Mac.

Here is the screenshot of the current version of Git installed on my Mac.

https://i.sstatic.net/EgrAL.png

Thanks.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 32630

Answers (7)

jay1648
jay1648

Reputation: 86

First -

brew install git

Then edit the /etc/paths and add /opt/homebrew/bin/ right below /usr/local/bin. Worked on my M3 MAX with Sonoma, without requiring to remove Apple Git.

Upvotes: 0

Jun Q
Jun Q

Reputation: 443

Hacky way to solve this, add alias git=/usr/local/bin/git to ~/.zshrc

Upvotes: -1

Basil Bourque
Basil Bourque

Reputation: 338835

I am no expert, but for me on a Mac running macOS 13.2.1 Ventura…

/usr/local/bin/git

It seems that /usr/local/bin/git is user installed. In a terminal, type which git to see if you have this. This git can be uninstalled. I found shortcuts there. I context-clicked on one to find original.

By digging into the orignial folders I found a uninstall.sh. Drag that to a Terminal.app window, and hit Return to execute. The script confirms your desire to uninstall git. Proceed, wait a moment, and Poof!. Gone.

Now run which git again. In my experience, it switch to now reporting a different installation of git: /usr/bin/git.

/usr/bin/git

In contrast, /usr/bin/git seems to be installed by Apple and cannot (or apparently, should not) be removed.

This purge enabled my IntelliJ IDE to successfully install Git so that I might access GitHub from within an IDE project.

Before the purge, IntelliJ reported errors after trying to install Git for its own use.

Upvotes: -1

Nikhil Reddy
Nikhil Reddy

Reputation: 9

To remove all components of git from MAC

$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ sudo rm -rf git*

Upvotes: -1

Hello Wor1d
Hello Wor1d

Reputation: 490

just install the latest git by brew

brew install git

then

PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH

the new git version will replace apple git as default

Upvotes: 24

rk2
rk2

Reputation: 1589

I had the exact same problem today. I wanted to use the latest git version as default instead of Apple Git. After a couple of hours, here is what helped me -

  1. Install latest (or whichever you want) version of git
  2. Make note of the location where new git binary got downloaded. In my case, it got downloaded at /usr/local/git/bin/git

  3. Backup Apple Git binary to some location (just in case)

    $ sudo cp /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git /tmp/git-apple

  4. Overwrite system's git with above downloaded git binary

    $ sudo cp /usr/local/git/bin/git /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git

  5. Verify the git version now -

    $ git --version

Hope this helps others as well.

Upvotes: 2

Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica
Kuba hasn't forgotten Monica

Reputation: 98435

There's nothing for you to do. The git you refer to is a part of the operating system. It's not user-installable. You do not want to un-install it.

If you want a different version, install it using e.g MacPorts or homebrew and use port select git or brew link, respectively, to choose the preferred version.

Upvotes: 10

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