From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: How to update git on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:12:22 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4ncingex.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Olivier de Broqueville X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 28 22:12:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Usf1x-0005BZ-Lf for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:12:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753467Ab3F1UM0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:12:26 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:34985 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752926Ab3F1UMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:12:25 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52682CAF9; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:12:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=eQkltpqS7L2UIDr3AOykm4erSxQ=; b=jT3FPT JyWye7XCuefosKp9kVpFz2OqaeYfR7IobZSuB4bZasSfVaFOywwNbyN3ZCvj4M58 ooX0s4cgb+6tVKrAuMEabiRAPpQYcGlitSo4bJai6kCM00MMfzjpM5K1L5WLywzW rVJQx+41PUg5qOvmQxb9FW/wYSHdnZdXkCe6M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=AJTQxfKTDmUGNbxZ/ZvhwecZL3mqZrEF acqY2egMASU2/6ks9QYAAoPaI89fWrP00Szwa6hYhlWtVqSjUK7OANmm7IXZhuLt Ar2GWPnjVf1jStvcrF0tffFwELndRVhlsemMMUGw7zzC5L97b8n6EuibW4VaHbOw bV4U5dM2BYQ= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB88B2CAF8; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [50.161.4.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F15B2CAF7; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:12:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Olivier de Broqueville's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:31:38 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0BD8AF8C-E02F-11E2-A1F9-E636B1368C5F-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Olivier de Broqueville writes: > Hello, > > I've learnt that Xcode installs git by default on the Mac. My current > version of git is 1.7.12.4 and it's located in /usr/bin/git. > > I wanted to update git to the latest stable version available: > 1.8.3.1. I proceeded with the instructions on: > http://git-scm.com/downloads and typed: > > git clone https://github.com/git/git.git > > (rather than using the .dmg file because I don't want to install a new > version of git in addition to the existing one used by Xcode. > Furthermore, I have no idea where the new version would end up being > installed and I've read that users have had trouble doing this!) > > This rendered the following results: > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git clone https://github.com/git/git.git > Cloning into 'git'... > remote: Counting objects: 157697, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (53116/53116), done. > remote: Total 157697 (delta 114700), reused 143715 (delta 102625) > Receiving objects: 100% (157697/157697), 39.56 MiB | 2.01 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (114700/114700), done. > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ which git > /usr/bin/git > Oliviers-iMac:~ odebroqueville$ git --version > git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37) > > As you can see, nothing seems to have changed! > > Would you have any explanations? You seem to have successfully downloaded the source, but I do not see the steps you built and installed the downloaded source. I think that would be a sufficient explanation?