On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 21:45:10 -0800 (PST) John C <jseltenri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just downloaded Git 2.6.4 to a Mac running El Capitan 10.11.3 The > installer worked fine and said job completed by I can find no > indication of where it was installed. > Does anyone have any suggestions? I have close to zero experience with Mac OS X platform but I have a hunch: Git is a command-line application which you supposed to run in a command line shell. The shell (I think Mac OS X comes with "bash") is typically run with the help of a so-called "terminal emulator" software which presents the user with a graphical window in which they can run a program expecting to work on a text-only terminal. So when you launch Terminal (or whatever it's named) you get a window with the shell running in it and prompting you with some text and a cursor. You can type there git --version and hit the Enter / Return key. If you get a short name and version of your Git program, all is OK and you're ready to apply whatever you read up on Git in your book / guide of choice ([1] would do just OK). If you get something like bash: git: command not found you have a problem with your Git installation. On a side note, Git is usually distributed with two stock GUI tools: `git gui` and `gitk`. You can run any of them right from the command prompt--while being in a directory with an initialized Git repository. I doubt if they are accessible from some sort of the system "application menu"--simply because this has little sense: they expect to be "run from" an existing repository so they have no command like "Open repository..." or something like this; they expect a different workflow. 1. http://git-scm.com/book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.