On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Melton Low (devl) <softw.devl@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- David -- 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