How to upgrade Git to latest version on macOS?

Question

I just bought a new Mac with OS X Lion and I checked in the Terminal what version of git is installed by default. I got the answer

git --version
> git ver         


        

Answer 1

It would probably be better if you added:

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

to a file named .bashrc in your home folder. This way any other software that you might install in /usr/local/git/bin will also be found first.

For an easy way to do this just type:

echo "export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc

into the Terminal and it will do it for you.