Question

I installed git a long time ago on Snow Leopard… Recently, I downloaded and installed git via git-1.7.8.4-intel-universal-snow-leopard.dmg installer.

However, when I go to Terminal and type in:

git version

It responds:

git version 1.6.4.2

When I do the following:

which git

It responds:

/usr/local/bin/git

When I cd into that directory and explicitly do the following:

./git version

Response:

git version 1.6.4.2

When I go inside:

/usr/local/git/bin 

And run it again explicitly:

./git version

I am finally able to see this updated version:

git version 1.7.8.4

How do I change it so from my home directory it will be version 1.7.8.4 ?

Why didn’t the installer file do this for me?

Happy programming…

Answer 1

Adding /usr/local/git/bin to your $PATH before /usr/local/bin should help:

~/.bash_profile

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