- In this video, I'll show you how to install Git on a Mac.
If you wanna learn how to install Git on a PC,
check out the next video.
Installing things is pretty easy, all you have to do
is go to the Git website,
which is at git-scm.com,
and then click on this Downloads for Mac button,
and your download should automatically start,
however, sometimes this doesn't quite work,
so you have to click here to download manually,
and then you have to wait five seconds,
and you should see this installer package downloading.
You can also click on this direct link right here,
which will download it a little bit faster.
Once the package finishes downloading,
you can go to your downloads folder,
or you can just click on this button right here,
I'm using Google Chrome, and this will open up
the DMG document, and you should see something like this
that has the package, as well as a README text file
and some other little files.
If you've never installed Git before, you can double click
on this package.
You might get a message like this
that says this package cannot be opened
because it's from an unidentified developer,
if you get that, just click OK,
go to the apple menu and select System Preferences.
And then, click on Security & Privacy,
and then find this Open Anyway button,
you can click on that, or if you want to,
you can modify your preferences here.
Click on this lock, then you can click on anywhere,
then you won't see that message again.
And, I'll hit Open Anyway, and just go
through the install prompts.
You may need to type in your password here.
Just go ahead and close this.
Now, if we wanna make sure that Git has installed,
we need to go to our terminal application,
and type in terminal, and in here,
we can type in git --version
to see what version of Git we're using.
So, notice that I'm using Git version 2.4.0,
that's the version that I downloaded.
If you see something else here,
there's some additional things that you may need to do.
If you open up this README file,
it tells you all about them, so for example,
you can use this command right here.
Some of the version that come with the Mac OS
are almost impossible to uninstall,
so let me actually go ahead and open this up,
so that I can copy that command.
And, you could do this command,
and I'll type in my password here.
Now, it says No such file or directory
because I've already deleted that file,
but if you run that command and it tells you something,
it means that you're ready for the next step
which is uninstalling your version of Git.
So, you can drag this uninstall.sh bash file right here
and hit return, it says that it's gonna uninstall Git,
so we'll go ahead and hit yes, and it's gonna get rid
of Git, let's go ahead and clear this out.
Which means that we have to install it again,
so we just go through the same process.
Go to the apple menu, and security,
say Open Anyway,
close this out, and just go through these prompts again.
And, once you're done with all that,
you should be able to see the version of Git
that you installed when you do git --version.
And, that's all there is to it.