git version not changed after installing new version

Hi all,
    I am new to Mac OS X lion and I had a previous installation of XCODE 4.2
on my mac mini. It has a git version 1.7.5.4. I installed a new version 1.7.8.4.
and updated the Path variables by running the script comes with the 
package as well. but when I type "git --version" in the terminal 
I get 1.7.5.4. Can anyone tell me what is going wrong ?

Kind regards

Most likely, you didn't update the PATH well enough. Check what is the output of 'which git' command. It will point to the xcode installation. So please double check the path.

25.01.2012, в 20:45, freefly:

freefly <free.fly@live.com> writes:

Enter 'which git' in a terminal. The 'which' utility looks up which executable from $PATH will be run if you use 'git' (in this case) as a command word, i.e., without specifying its path.

This should point to your newly installed git. It probably doesn't, and you can compare it and your $PATH (try: 'echo "$PATH"' in a terminal) to see why.

Thanks both of you for your replies, I have checked but, it still points to the old "/usr/bin/git" not the "/usr/local/git/bin" :(

when I run the update path script I get this output.

No change to PATH in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist ~ /Volumes/Git 1.7.8.3 Snow Leopard Intel Universal /Volumes/Git 1.7.8.3 Snow Leopard Intel Universal

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 17:19 +0000, freefly wrote:

What do `which git` and `type git` say? Bash remembers where it ran a command so if you install a binary to a new location, it might not find it straight away.

So the script detected that no change was needed presumably. What's your $PATH and is /usr/local/bin/ before /usr/bin/?

   cmn

which git => /usr/bin/git

type git => git is hashed (/usr/bin/git)

 
echo $PATH => /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:
                         /usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/opt/local/bin

from the above output it is not before /usr/bin :(

Please don't cull the CC list. It's customary in the git ML to send a copy of the message to each participant.

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 19:32 +0000, freefly wrote:

There you go then. That should get set in ~/.bashrc so edit that file to change the order.

   cmn

I didn't the rules about ML and culling some of them have guidelines to reduce the noise.

So you want me to edit the ~/.bashrc and put change the order of those paths ?

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 20:20 +0000, freefly wrote:

With the places you've installed git in, that's what you need to do. You need to tell your shell to look at /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, otherwise it won't use your locally-installed git.

   cmn

 
Thanks ... 
I really appreciate your time.  

that doesn't seem to change the path :(

which git => /usr/bin/git

version still points to the old one  :(

This is my current path that I changed, as you told me to do... 

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin

On 26.01.2012 16:13, freefly wrote:

Put /usr/local/git/bin in front (it is easy to overlook the "git/" in there as software often uses /usr/local/bin)

That worked. Thank you very much.

Sorry about the last post, I had to prune some things from the message, because when I was trying to post it just keep telling me that I have more quoted text than what I have written :(