Git used to work fine on my Mac OS X. Today i found it not working:
$ git
-bash: git: command not found
I installed previously with Macports. Now if i try again, the following happens:
$ sudo port install git-core
Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state.
---> Computing dependencies for git-core
---> Fetching archive for git-core
---> Attempting to fetch git-core-1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/git-core
---> Attempting to fetch git-core-1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/git-core
---> Attempting to fetch git-core-1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/git-core
---> Fetching distfiles for git-core
---> Attempting to fetch git-1.8.0.2.tar.gz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/git-core
---> Attempting to fetch git-manpages-1.8.0.2.tar.gz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/git-core
---> Attempting to fetch git-htmldocs-1.8.0.2.tar.gz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/git-core
---> Verifying checksum(s) for git-core
---> Extracting git-core
---> Applying patches to git-core
---> Configuring git-core
---> Building git-core
---> Staging git-core into destroot
---> Installing git-core @1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> Activating git-core @1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
Error: org.macports.activate for port git-core returned: Image error: /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-subtree already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port git-core. Use 'port -f activate git-core' to force the activation.
Please see the log file for port git-core for details:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_git-core/git-core/main.log
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: Processing of port git-core failed
21:51 foouser@barhost:~$ sudo port -f activate git-core
---> The following versions of git-core are currently installed:
---> git-core @1.7.7.2_0+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.7.4_0+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.9_0+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.9.2_0+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.9.2_1+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.9.4_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.10_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.11.3_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.11.5_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.7.12.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.8.0.1_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
---> git-core @1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
Error: port activate failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry.
It still is not working. How should i restore my beloved git?
The problem is that you have multiple git-core installed on your system. You need to be more precise on which you want to add. Otherwise activate a specific version.
For example, you can do :
sudo port install git-core @1.7.11.3_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27
to choose the version 1.7.11.3_0 with the mentioned variants. Or the last version by doing :
sudo port install git-core @1.8.0.2_0+credential_osxkeychain+doc+pcre+python27