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I have previously installed Git(1.9.3) and I want to upgrade it to the latest version(2.0.1). I uninstalled the previous install by running the uninstall.sh first and then git.pkg. However, when I run git --version, it still shows me git version 1.9.3 (Apple Git-50).

So I did this:

$ which git
/usr/bin/git

$ echo $PATH
...:/usr/local/git/bin

Obviouslly, Git in /usr/local/git/bin is the latest version I want.

So how can I remove the path of the older version and tell Mac OSX where to find the right version?

Thanks!

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One solution would simply to change the order in your $PATH in your ~/.bash_profile

export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin/:$PATH
source ~/.bash_profile

As suggested in git: command not found (on OS X 10.5) and Locate Git installation folder on Mac OS X.

In your case, you do have /usr/local/git/bin/ in your PATH, but in the wrong order if you want it to be taken into account.

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VonC
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XCode uses its own git version, which makes it a bit difficult to update. These two terminal commands worked for me:

sudo mv /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git-xcode
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/git/bin/git /usr/bin/git

This solution is taken from Heroku's recently published seurity alert for git 1.9.3. This post includes a download link. These two commands are advised in that link. The .dmg download package also includes a README file with a similar link.

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  • For me just `sudo mv /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/git-xcode` did the trick. The other command which creates symbolic name is not needed – kuldarim Jul 11 '15 at 15:58
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A preinstalled version of Git comes with OSX and I was using that after seeing that version has some major security issues I went ahead and downloaded the latest git from git site but even after installing, when I looked it up in the terminal with the command git --version it showed me the older one.

So I googled a bit and found out that

Those security vulnerabilities issues were addressed in the beta Xcode version as mentioned in this official statement from apple.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204147

So guys go ahead and download the beta Xcode If you find it easy to use apples git like me.

Good Luck!

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