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Git via Command Line Tools

Purposes

Git

In Mac OSX, git will be installed thru Command Line Tools.

Steps

  1. Open App Store, search for Xcode
  2. Download Xcode
  3. Launch iTerm inside Applications, run the command xcode-select --install
  4. A pop-up is shown to ask you to install command line tools, click Install to continue
  5. Wait for the Command Line Tools package download to complete, it'll be about 130MB and installs fairly quickly depending on your connection speed
  6. The installer goes away when completed, it installs quite a lot commands, including git and other useful utilities
  7. Try running git --version in iTerm

Goals

  • Install the Command Line Tools
  • Able to run git --version command, and it shows you the current version of git

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