Git on Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion)

Question

I just upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion), and now Git is gone:

$ git
-bash: git: command not found

How can I get Git back?

Answer 1

If you do not want to install Xcode and/or MacPorts/Fink/Homebrew, you could always use the standalone installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/

Answer 2

There are a couple of points to this answer.

Firstly, you don't need to install Xcode. The Git installer works perfectly well. However, if you want to use Git from within Xcode - it expects to find an installation under /usr/local/bin. If you have your own Git installed elsewhere - I've got a script that fixes this.

Second is to do with the path. My Git path used to be kept under /etc/paths.d/ However, a Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) install overwrites the contents of this folder and the /etc/paths file as well. That's what happened to me and I got the same error. Recreating the path file fixed the problem.

Answer 3

You have to find where the Git executable is and then add the folder to the PATH environment variable in file .bash_profile.

Using terminal:

1. Search for Git:

    sudo find / -name git
   

2. Edit the .bash_profile file. Add:

    PATH="<Directory of Git>:$PATH"
   

Git is back :-)

Anyway, I suggest you to install Git using MacPorts. In this way you can easily upgrade your Git instance to the newest release.

Answer 4

It's part of Xcode. You'll need to reinstall the developer tools.

Answer 5

You can always use MacPorts...

Answer 6

The default install location is /usr/local, so add this to your ~/.bash_profile file:

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

Then run source ~/.bash_profile in Terminal.