From: Ted Wood <coolfactor@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:26:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Git installation on Mac OS X - problem
Message-ID: <2DA3B860-6AE0-4C2E-9B6B-BA3BA36C63B8@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EA7B5FB-14EF-4106-B52E-3A28B85AFAF2@mac.com>


Sorry... I misread the README... it does indeed say /usr/local/git, which is where the new binary was installed correctly. Eyes have been crossed by all of these software re-installations and terminal commands. :P

Thanks.

~Ted



On 2013-09-02, at 1:16 PM, Ted Wood <coolfactor@mac.com> wrote:

> 
> I've recently re-installed all of my MacPorts installations due to a third-party application corrupting my installation. Upon attempting to install git-core via MacPorts, it hangs on the "Building" stage, with no disk activity (clang process is active in Terminal). So, I attempted to download the .pkg install from git-scm.com. This Installer says the installation was complete, but Apple's outdated version of git (1.7.3) is still the active binary.
> 
> Two observations:
> 1) The README.txt file says that Git will be installed into /usr/local/bin
> 2) The installation actually seems to be installed into /usr/bin, according to the installation log, which I have attached. This is the same location as Apple's version of Git.
> 
> Of particular interest is the PATH variable setting at the very top of the log file, which makes no reference to /usr/local/bin... only /usr/bin.
> 
>        Installer[18576]: Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
> 
> I've rarely experienced problems with installing software in the past. Is this an oversight on the part of the package assembler, or am I missing something?
> 
> ~Ted
> 
> <Git Installer Log 2-Sep-2013.txt>