Hi Matthew, On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Matthew Orres wrote: > I'd be glad to give it a try - but am unfamiliar with how portable a > manual build of Git can be used along side the version I have > installed via Homebrew - do I just use full paths to reference the > compiled executable from within my repository folder? No. If you want to avoid installing Git, and instead want to run it in-place after building it, you have to use --exec-path, like so: $HOME/my-git-checkout/git --exec-path=$HOME/my-git-checkout gui Ciao, Johannes