My computer can't find the git command

Question

I recently installed git on my computer (OSX 10.10.1) and when I run git I get git: error: unable to find utility "git", not a developer tool or in PATH. So I checked, found that I didn't have the directory that git was in in my PATH so I added it in. I checked and my PATH has it. My PATH is

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Users/Jesse/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/Jesse/SDKs/android-sdk-macosx/tools/android:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin

You'll notice that the last one is /usr/local/git/bin. If I cd to /usr/local/git/bin and run ./git then git runs just fine. I can't figure out what might be causing this. I tried restarting my computer too just in case without any change.

Answer 1

You should make sure that you're working on the right XCode environment, for example:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

Check the current value by: sudo xcode-select -p.

Then make sure you've accepted the license by running:

sudo xcodebuild -license

and by typing agree and check if that works.

Double check if you're not overriding DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH system variable by unsetting it from your rc files. Test in Terminal by echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.

If none of above works, you've to change the order of your PATH by editing it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or by adding the following line:

export PATH="/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH"