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I installed the GitHub UI for OS X from here: https://central.github.com/mac/latest. As part of the installation I get an option to "Install Command Line Tools". On doing so it places the relevant assets under /usr/local/bin. I assumed it would register git in the PATH variable as well so that I could run it from the terminal if needed. However it doesn't work from the terminal, instead if I run 'git' in terminal, I get prompted to install XCode.

Am I assuming something incorrectly here? Also tried installing git from here: http://git-scm.com/download/mac. After the installer completed successfully, I still can't seem to be able to use git from the terminal.

UPDATE: my PATH variable has the following:

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

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  • First, you need to restart bash (e.g. by opening a new terminal) after installing something that modifies the default values of environment variables. Second, what does echo $PATH say?
    – Robin Green
    Commented Nov 10, 2013 at 8:14
  • /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin
    – Cranialsurge
    Commented Nov 11, 2013 at 9:29
  • Whenever I try and invoke git from the terminal I get the following message with a prompt: xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.
    – Cranialsurge
    Commented Nov 11, 2013 at 9:31
  • Any chance you can try and put /usr/local/git/bin first in the PATH? (just in one shell session, to see how XCode and git react then)
    – VonC
    Commented Nov 11, 2013 at 10:32

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As mentioned in "git on Mac: replace Apple XCode CLI git with symbolic link to latest git install?", it dpeends on the order of the folders in the PATH environment variable.

  • XCode CLI installer puts a copy of git in /usr/bin
  • Reinstalling the latest git from git-scm.com put git in /usr/local/git/bin/git

If git command line is installed in /usr/local/git/bin, make sure to put that in first:

PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
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Just download these tools running command in terminal:

xcode-select --install

If it doesn't help you try to download them manually form apple developer site: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?=command%20line%20tools#

It helped me.

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This command worked for me

sudo xcode-select -switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
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