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Did Apple remove the 'git gui' command in Xcode 4.5 command line tools?


After updating to Xcode 4.5 and installing the developer tools I can no longer run the 'git gui' command from the command line. It says:

$ git gui
git: 'gui' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

I'm running this version:

$ git --version
git version 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33)

Searching the git docs (http://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui) shows 'git gui' should be available, and hasn't changed since version 1.7.7. So did this Apple version of git remove this command? I use it all the time!


Solution

  • Apple did indeed remove the 'git gui' command, probably because they were removing X11 which 'git gui' is based on.

    I decided to just homebrew git instead of relying on the Xcode command line tools.

    brew install git
    

    Then I edited the /etc/paths file to have the /usr/local/bin directory come before the /usr/bin directory, because that wasn't right either. Then exited the terminal window and restarted, and now I get:

    $ which git
    /usr/local/bin/git
    
    $ git --version
    git version 1.7.12.1
    

    and the git gui command works again.