git on Mac OS X Lion

Question

I just upgraded my mac to LION, and now git is gone:

$ git
-bash: git: command not found

Any ideas on how to get git back?

Answer 1

The default install location is /usr/local so add this to your ~/.bash_profile

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin/

then run source ~/.bash_profile in Terminal

Answer 2

If you do not want to install XCode and/or ports/fink/homebrew, you could always use the standalone installer: http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/

Answer 3

There are a couple of points to this answer.

Firstly, you don't need to install Xcode. The Git installer works perfectly well. However, if you want to use Git from within Xcode - it expects to find an installation under /usr/local/bin. If you have your own Git installed elsewhere - I've got a script that fixes this.

Second is to do with the path. My Git path used to be kept under /etc/paths.d/ However, a Lion install overwrites the contents of this folder and the /etc/paths file as well. That's what happened to me and I got the same error. Recreating the path file fixed the problem.

Answer 4

you have to find where git is and then add the folder to the PATH variables in .bash_profile.

Using terminal:

1) search for git:

sudo find / -name git

2) edit the .bash_profile add

PATH="<DIRECTORY OF GIT>:$PATH"

Git is back :-)

Anyway i suggest you to install git using macports, in this way you can easilly upgrade your git to the newest release

Hope this helps

Answer 5

It's part of Xcode. You'll need to reinstall the developer tools.

Answer 6

You can always use port