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Reinstalling Git with Homebrew to Get the Latest Version
- Authors
- Name
- interglobalmedia
- @letsbsocial1
Note: You have to already have Homebrew
installed in order to install Git
with Homebrew
.
Yesterday I updated Xcode
on macOS Monterey
, and found out that it did not include the latest version of Git
. So I decided to re-install it with Homebrew
, if I could.
I could, and I did, but it involved a bit of a hack. Since macOS El Capitan
, we are not able to make changes to the bin
folder due to SIP
(System Integration Protection
) on our Macs
. We have to disable it and then re-enable it after making the changes
we need to make
. I did not want to have to go through the process
of doing this if I could avoid it, and it would have meant more time in doing so. Instead, before I re-installed Git
with Homebrew
, I created an alias
:
alias git='/usr/local/bin/git'
I ran the above command
in Terminal
. Then I "re-installed"
Git with Homebrew
. I came across the steps to do so in a Github Gist
, and the alias
workaround as well. To read through this Gist
, please visit Re-installing Git on Mac OSX with Brew on Github
. I found the alias
suggestion from within the comments
.
The alias
worked for me and was much quicker to implement, so I stuck with it. I ran the following commands
to install Git
with Homebrew
:
brew uninstall git
brew update
brew install git
The first command
did nothing for me, because I did not previously install Git
with Homebrew
. I ran the second command
to update Homebrew
(always recommended before installing something with Homebrew
). And the third command
actually installed Git
with Homebrew
.
Happy distributed version control
with Git
!