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I'm trying to update to the newest version of Git on Mac OSX Lion 10.7.5. I've downloaded the newest version from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/ multiple times. I've started and restarted terminal, and no matter what "git --version" returns "1.7.9.6" even though the newest version is 1.8.5.2. "which git" returns "/usr/bin/git". Is it being installed in the wrong spot? If so, how can I specify it to install somewhere else?

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  • Slightly off topic: I recommend to use homebrew to manage external libraries and tools (like git): brew.sh. Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 6:45
  • issue /usr/bin/git --version, and then echo $PATHm and provide the output Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 6:45
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  • What do you get when you run which git it should return with - /usr/local/git/bin/git. If the path is different and not in /usr you have a local install of git and that should be removed from $PATH Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 9:21
  • @majioa Here is the output: /Users/NormalUse/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@learn-rails/bin:/Users/NormalUse/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@global/bin:/Users/NormalUse/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/bin:/Users/NormalUse/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin Commented Jan 24, 2014 at 14:46

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The OSX installer puts everything into /usr/local/git, so you need to make sure /usr/local/git/bin is on your path.

You may want to look at this answer as well. It has some more details about installing properly on OSX.

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Yeah, I'm still very new to this, so I'm trying to figure out how to change the path. I will head over to this link now.
Thank you guys. I was looking for exactly what order my path needed to be in. I opened my bash profile, and added: PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH to it. Then reinstalled latest version of Git. Opened a new Terminal window, and now we are good to go!

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