How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

[Olivier de Broqueville]

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.

Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

[Junio C Hamano]

Olivier de Broqueville <olivier.debroqueville@gmail.com> 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?

Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

[Melton Low (devl)]

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.
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Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4

[David Aguilar]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Melton Low (devl) <softw.devl@gmail.com> 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.
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>
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David