Git not found in Mountain Lion

Nov 27, 2012 · archive

I recently updated OS X Lion to OS X Mountain Lion on all my personal computers. The installation was smooth, but afterwards some things did not work as expected. For instance, git was no longer found.

After upgrading, git was simply not a recognized command in the Terminal any more. Downloading and installing git from the git website didn’t help either.

I finally solved it by re-installing git with Xcode:

Start Xcode
In the main menu, select XCode > Preferences
Select the Downloads tab
Install Command Line Tools

Once the installation is done, git will once again be available in the Terminal.

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