There are several options for installing Git on macOS. Note that any non-source distributions are provided by third parties, and may not be up to date with the latest source release.
Homebrew
- Git for Non-terminal programs (Optional Step/Instruction for you) Typically Non-terminal programs don’t inherit the system wide PATH and MANPATH variables that your terminal does. If you’d like them to be able to see latest Git for any reason.
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- Chapter 37 Accessing the terminal and installing Git. Before getting started, we need to make sure you have access to a terminal and that Git is installed. The terminal is integrated into Mac and Linux systems, but Windows users will have to install an emulator. There are many emulator options available, but here we show how to install Git Bash.
To download Git. If you don't know how to open terminal, you can find it by going to search on your mac and typing in 'terminal' Then, type in the. How to Download From GitHub on Windows & Mac OS X Mac and Windows users will be happy to find out that files and projects can be download from GitHub by using a GUI. There are many Git clients available, some free and some commercials, but for this tutorial, we’ll stick to the official Git clients from GitHub.
Mac Git Clients
Install homebrew if you don't already have it, then:$ brew install git
Xcode
Apple ships a binary package of Git with Xcode.
Open Git Terminal
Binary installer
Tim Harper provides an installer for Git. The latest version is 2.27.0, which was released 4 months ago, on 2020-07-22.
Building from Source
Git Terminal Windows
If you prefer to build from source, you can find tarballs on kernel.org. The latest version is 2.29.2.