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I'm just curious, Where Git get installed (via DMG) on Mac OS X file system?

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Is it in your PATH? If so just run which git in the terminal and it will tell you.

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The installer from the git homepage installs into /usr/local/git by default. See also this answer. However, if you install XCode4, it will install a git version in /usr/bin. To ensure you can easily upgrade from the website and use the latest git version, edit either your profile information to place /usr/local/git/bin before /usr/bin in the $PATH or edit /etc/paths and insert /usr/local/git/bin as the first entry (see this answer).

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BHMulder
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    I first installed git 1.8 via dmg, but then installed the Command Line Tools for XCode (not the full XCode4) from Apple which installed 1.7. Placing /usr/local/git/bin in the front of my path got me using 1.8 again. Thanks! – emkman Jan 05 '13 at 07:10
  • Cool, it worked for me too on 10.8.4, had the old version and new installation was not reflecting, changing order in /etc/paths works. – Mohammad Arif Jun 25 '13 at 03:46
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simply type in which git in your terminal window and it will show you exactly where it was installed.

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you can simply use this command on a terminal to find out git on unix platforms (mac/linux) -

whereis git or which git

This command should return something like - /usr/bin/git or any other location where git is installed

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On most of UNIX based sys, its at /usr/bin/git (if installed with default options)
all git related scripts are at /usr/libexec/git-core

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You can also try with /usr/local/bin/git it worked for me

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Usually some of the applications have been known to take it from the Xcode.app path also: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/

Coda 2, prefers this path than the soft link at /usr/bin.

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Mostly in /usr/local/git (there are also /etc/paths.d/git and /etc/manpaths.d/git items).

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On Linux the command is whereis. Alternatively you can issue find / -name git and wait for an eternity. Alternatively try echo $PATH | sed "s/:/ /g" | xargs -L 1 ls | grep git

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If you have fresh installation / update of Xcode, it is possible that your git binary can't be executed (I had mine under /usr/bin/git). To fix this problem just run the Xcode and "Accept" license conditions and try again, it should work.

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On Mojave

The binary is in 

/usr/bin/git

The related scripts are here

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core/git
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