What's an easy way to fix the default git installation on OSX?

jhugo · on March 10, 2021

Wait for a macOS security update that includes it. If you don’t want to wait, macports and homebrew will both be patched much faster.

btgeekboy · on March 10, 2021

Isn't git distributed with the Xcode command line tools?

saagarjha · on March 10, 2021

Yes, so you’ll probably get a new version when 12.5 drops (maybe later this month?)

mdasen · on March 10, 2021

I did a `brew install git` and then deleted /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git. You can't delete /usr/bin/git even with sudo (system integrity policy).

After installing git via brew and removing the one in CommandLineTools, /usr/bin/git is showing the latest version.

    me@local % git --version
    git version 2.30.2

I don't know if this is recommended or if it will have negative consequences that i don't know about, but it seemed like the way I could accomplish it. Given that /usr/bin/git is working with the homebrew installed git, I'm hopeful that everything will be good.

Zambyte · on March 11, 2021

I don't use Mac, so I can't speak yo how the changes you made will affect your system. For future reference however, you should know that binaries are searched on your $PATH in order. Instead of deleting anything, you could have edited your $PATH variable so that the directory that brew stores binaries in is searched before other locations.

jonahx · on March 10, 2021

brew install git