Question

I had a problem with git on my machine and I accidentally deleted the /usr/bin/git from my system.

My git was installed through the XCode Command Line Tools and I cannot find a way to reinstall it.

The git was not uninstalled, the git file was removed.

Is there a way from XCode or somewhere else to reinstall the command line tools? or somewhere Where I can get the original git file to add to /usr/bin again?

THanks

Answer 1

sudo cp /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git

I don’t know why /usr/bin/git isn’t just a symlink to that file, but on my system it’s a separate (identical) copy.