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Re-installing Git on Mac OSX with Brew

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Re-installing Git on Mac OSX with Brew

This is helpful if you've previously installed git from source on OSX, and other compilers can't find the correct path. You need to remove the current version of git, then re-install with brew.

Uninstall git if installed manually

Check which git you're running:
```
which git
```
output should be similar to this: /usr/bin/git

Remove that git install

sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/git/
sudo rm /etc/paths.d/git
sudo rm /etc/manpaths.d/git
sudo pkgutil --forget --pkgs=GitOSX\.Installer\.git[A-Za-z0-9]*\.[a-z]*.pkg

Re-install git with brew

brew uninstall git
brew update
brew install git

Check which git you're now running:

which git

Should now say: /usr/local/bin/git

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