Re: [git-users] Download can't be found

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 21:45:10 -0800 (PST)
John C  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

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[git-users] Download can't be found

[John C]

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?
Thanks in advance.

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