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title: "Git - Install for macOS"
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      <p>There are several options for installing Git on macOS. Note that
  any non-source distributions are provided by third parties, and may
  not be up to date with the latest source release.</p>

  <p><b>Choose one of the following options for installing Git on macOS:</b></p>

  <h3>Homebrew</h3>
  <p>Install <a href="https://brew.sh/">homebrew</a> if you don't already have it, then:<br>
  <code>$ brew install git</code></p>

  <h3>MacPorts</h3>
  <p>Install <a href="https://www.macports.org">MacPorts</a> if you don't already have it, then:<br>
  <code>$ sudo port install git</code></p>

  <h3>Xcode Command Line Tools</h3>
  <p>Apple ships a binary package of Git with <a
  href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/resources/">Xcode Command Line
  Tools</a>. You can install this via:<br>
  <code>$ xcode-select --install</code></p>

  <h3>Binary installer</h3>
  <p>Tim Harper provided an installer for Git until version 2.33.0 / 2021.
  These installers are no longer linked from here because there are no updates
  since that version, nor are there plans to provide any.</p>

  <h3>Installing git-gui</h3>
  <p>If you would like to install <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui/">git-gui</a> and <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk/">gitk</a>,
  git's commit GUI and interactive history browser, you can do so using <a href="https://brew.sh/">homebrew</a><br>

  <code>$ brew install git-gui</code></p>

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