+1 to the Mac Github > preferences > install command line tools

sounds like the same problem I've been referring to in the following places
(at RU and at WUSL):
http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/07/high-school-students-at-rockefeller.html
https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/595

I thought I also posted on the windows-installer repo about testing git on
a mac by running
`git init` in a temp folder to properly diagnose this issue, but I cannot
find the issue I commented on.

- Dan

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Carol Willing <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Greg,
>
> +1 to Damien's suggestion to document.
>
> FWIW, we use the following Git installation instructions for OpenHatch's
> Open Source Comes to Campus events (
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Laptop_setup/OSX_git)
> and we don't seem to face the same configuration issues. It does need to be
> updated for Mavericks 10.9 and Yosemite 10.10.
>
> Carol
>
>
> On 30/10/2014 22:25, Damien Irving wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
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