Hi Greg, After you've tried all these solutions tomorrow, perhaps you (or one of the other instructors you're with this week) could write a blog post and/or update the wiki ( https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/wiki/Configuration-Problems-and-Solutions) to alert the community about the best way to solve this problem (or the multiple different ways depending on your exact version of OS X)? From my experience the git on old Macs issue is the number one problem that keeps coming up again and again, and as evidenced by this email discussion and the wiki page there's a lot of different solutions out there. In the heat of battle, I've found that presenting helpers and learners with multiple different options for fixing it doesn't go down so well. What we really need is a super clear decision tree outlining which option to take for which problem / OS X version.
Cheers, Damien On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Carol Willing < [email protected]> wrote: > HI Greg, > > We ran into this same issue on OS X 10.8 of below at UCSD a couple of > weeks ago. > > We found success by using the git-osx-installer 1.8.4.2 found here: > > https://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/detail?name=git-1.8.4.2-intel-universal-snow-leopard.dmg&can=2&q= > > If it does not work or you get an error with git v1.8.4.2, the second > thing that helped was to install or update the command line tools using the > command "xcode-select --install": > http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/12/install-command-line-tools-mac-os-x/ > > This SW Carpentry wiki doc helped for some installation issues that we ran > across: > https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/wiki/Configuration-Problems-and-Solutions > > Good luck! > > Carol > > > On 30/10/2014 16:25, Greg Wilson wrote: > > We tried older versions of Git when this came up three weeks ago; didn't > help. I'll try GitHub for Mac tomorrow - don't think the students have > Homebrew. > Thx, > G > > On 2014-10-30 7:21 PM, Matt Davis wrote: > > Looks like most of the advice comes down to "install a different Git". > > You could track down an older installer for Macs, install GitHub for Mac > (https://mac.github.com/), or install the command line tools, either via > XCode or by downloading just the command line tools from Apple's developer > site (for which you have to register for a free Apple developer account). > If, for some reason, folks are already using Homebrew it can also install > Git. > > If you try GitHub for Mac I don't know to where that installs Git. > > - Matt > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Greg Wilson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We had another couple of students run into "Git doesn't run on Mac OS X >> 10.8" problems today - as with the workshop in Toronto at the beginning of >> the month, 'git --version' works fine, but anything beyond that (such as >> 'git init .') fails because of a symbol binding problem (missing symbol is >> strlcpy_chk, for those who care). The furthest we got then was: >> >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22920497/git-mountain-lion-dyld-lazy-symbol-binding-failed-symbol-not-found-str >> >> Does anyone have an advance on this? I'd like to be able to get them >> back on track tomorrow morning if I can... >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> -- >> Greg Wilson >> Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> > > > > -- > Greg Wilson > Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing > [email protected]http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > -- > *Carol Willing* > Developer | Willing Consulting > https://willingconsulting.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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