Olivier de Broqueville <olivier.debroqueville@xxxxxxxxx> 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html