# How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 4 messages from 2013-06-28 to 2013-06-29. Participants: Olivier de Broqueville, Junio C Hamano, Melton Low (devl), David Aguilar. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/34303 ## Olivier de Broqueville, 2013-06-28 19:31 Subject: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAN_-5Z94-OV7rHYf%2BmUuf_xanxu0%2Bodwovv0mpB4GRHVsjccDw%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello, I've learnt that Xcode installs git by default on the Mac. My current version of git is 1.7.12.4 and it's located in /usr/bin/git. I wanted to update git to the latest stable version available: 1.8.3.1. I proceeded with the instructions on: http://git-scm.com/downloads and typed: git clone https://github.com/git/git.git (rather than using the .dmg file because I don't want to install a new version of git in addition to the existing one used by Xcode. Furthermore, I have no idea where the new version would end up being installed and I've read that users have had trouble doing this!) This rendered the following results: Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git clone https://github.com/git/git.git Cloning into 'git'... remote: Counting objects: 157697, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (53116/53116), done. remote: Total 157697 (delta 114700), reused 143715 (delta 102625) Receiving objects: 100% (157697/157697), 39.56 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (114700/114700), done. Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ which git /usr/bin/git Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git --version git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37) As you can see, nothing seems to have changed! Would you have any explanations? Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards, Olivier de Broqueville. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2013-06-28 20:12 Subject: Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Message-ID: <7v4ncingex.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v4ncingex.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Olivier de Broqueville writes: > Hello, > > I've learnt that Xcode installs git by default on the Mac. My current > version of git is 1.7.12.4 and it's located in /usr/bin/git. > > I wanted to update git to the latest stable version available: > 1.8.3.1. I proceeded with the instructions on: > http://git-scm.com/downloads and typed: > > git clone https://github.com/git/git.git > > (rather than using the .dmg file because I don't want to install a new > version of git in addition to the existing one used by Xcode. > Furthermore, I have no idea where the new version would end up being > installed and I've read that users have had trouble doing this!) > > This rendered the following results: > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git clone https://github.com/git/git.git > Cloning into 'git'... > remote: Counting objects: 157697, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (53116/53116), done. > remote: Total 157697 (delta 114700), reused 143715 (delta 102625) > Receiving objects: 100% (157697/157697), 39.56 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (114700/114700), done. > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ which git > /usr/bin/git > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git --version > git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37) > > As you can see, nothing seems to have changed! > > Would you have any explanations? You seem to have successfully downloaded the source, but I do not see the steps you built and installed the downloaded source. I think that would be a sufficient explanation? ``` ## Melton Low (devl), 2013-06-28 21:06 Subject: Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Message-ID: <51CDFADD.8000707@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/51CDFADD.8000707%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, Did you do a "sudo make install" as the last step? As a general rule of thumb on OS X, don't update or otherwise do anything to stuff installed by Apple. You have to install the newer version from the Git repository to a different directory, eg /usr/local or /usr/local/git . ./configure --prefix=/usr/local or ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/git make all sudo make install Then change your login profile, from the terminal, to reflect the new bin location, eg /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/git/bin . Hope this help. Mel Olivier de Broqueville wrote: > Hello, > > I've learnt that Xcode installs git by default on the Mac. My current > version of git is 1.7.12.4 and it's located in /usr/bin/git. > > I wanted to update git to the latest stable version available: > 1.8.3.1. I proceeded with the instructions on: > http://git-scm.com/downloads and typed: > > git clone https://github.com/git/git.git > > (rather than using the .dmg file because I don't want to install a new > version of git in addition to the existing one used by Xcode. > Furthermore, I have no idea where the new version would end up being > installed and I've read that users have had trouble doing this!) > > This rendered the following results: > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git clone https://github.com/git/git.git > Cloning into 'git'... > remote: Counting objects: 157697, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (53116/53116), done. > remote: Total 157697 (delta 114700), reused 143715 (delta 102625) > Receiving objects: 100% (157697/157697), 39.56 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (114700/114700), done. > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ which git > /usr/bin/git > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git --version > git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37) > > As you can see, nothing seems to have changed! > > Would you have any explanations? > > Thank you in advance for your help. > Best regards, > Olivier de Broqueville. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ``` ## David Aguilar, 2013-06-29 01:59 Subject: Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJDDKr5Spv0%3De7vbjYETKn8f6VnfSJ%3DrGLZoqDrCmE1Rqy6YrA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <51CDFADD.8000707@gmail.com> ``` On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Melton Low (devl) wrote: > Hi, > > Did you do a "sudo make install" as the last step? > > As a general rule of thumb on OS X, don't update or otherwise do anything to > stuff installed by Apple. You have to install the newer version from the > Git repository to a different directory, eg /usr/local or /usr/local/git . It's never any fun doing this stuff yourself. If you're new to this stuff then I would highly recommend using homebrew: http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/ Once you've installed it you can say, "brew install git". > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > or > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/git > > make all > sudo make install > > Then change your login profile, from the terminal, to reflect the new bin > location, eg /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/git/bin . > > Hope this help. > > Mel > > > Olivier de Broqueville wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've learnt that Xcode installs git by default on the Mac. My current >> version of git is 1.7.12.4 and it's located in /usr/bin/git. >> >> I wanted to update git to the latest stable version available: >> 1.8.3.1. I proceeded with the instructions on: >> http://git-scm.com/downloads and typed: >> >> git clone https://github.com/git/git.git >> >> (rather than using the .dmg file because I don't want to install a new >> version of git in addition to the existing one used by Xcode. >> Furthermore, I have no idea where the new version would end up being >> installed and I've read that users have had trouble doing this!) >> >> This rendered the following results: >> Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git clone https://github.com/git/git.git >> Cloning into 'git'... >> remote: Counting objects: 157697, done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (53116/53116), done. >> remote: Total 157697 (delta 114700), reused 143715 (delta 102625) >> Receiving objects: 100% (157697/157697), 39.56 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done. >> Resolving deltas: 100% (114700/114700), done. >> Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ which git >> /usr/bin/git >> Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git --version >> git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37) >> >> As you can see, nothing seems to have changed! >> >> Would you have any explanations? >> >> Thank you in advance for your help. >> Best regards, >> Olivier de Broqueville. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- David ```