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This isn’t much of a big problem just a nuisance.

So when ever I open and or close eclipse/IntelliJ application on my Mac, this icon shows up saying “the git command requires the command line developers tool. Would you like to install?”.

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This icon shows up when ever I do anything relating to java programming (opening/ closing IDE, creating a new class, sometimes when configuring main class, opening a new project). I always press “cancel” instead of “install” when the icon appears.

Paul T.
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  • Does this answer your question? [The "git" command requires the command line developer tools. Would you like to install](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59080773/the-git-command-requires-the-command-line-developer-tools-would-you-like-to-i) – Andrey Sep 21 '20 at 08:22
  • See also this thread https://superuser.com/questions/322633/how-to-install-git-on-mac-without-xcode – Andrey Sep 21 '20 at 08:24
  • This is actually a feature when developing on a Mac using git or other command line tools, as the XCode command line tools are kept up to date by Apple. If you don't use git, then it just gets in your way, but it has advantages you might want to look into as git is a very frequently used tool when being more than one developer on a project. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Sep 28 '20 at 12:24

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Upgrade your Eclipse to 2020-09 (4.17) or at least EGit to 5.9.

Eclipse does not require to have the command line Git to be installed, but calls the git command to check whether the command line Git is installed (and if it's installed, how it is configured). A change that came with a macOS update redirects the git command causing this dialog to pop up. For details see Eclipse bug 564372.

For IntelliJ see JetBrains' bug tracker, e.g. here.

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