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That is crazy. Im also bitter that you basically need xcode for git on macOS

by nonethewiser 3y ago

dubcanada 3y ago
You need the developer tools (like 2.5gb), or homebrew.
- murphyslaw 3y ago
  A lot of homebrew installs (those from code) require Apple's compile time stuff which only xcode has.
  - sigzero 3y ago
    You can only install the command line tools now. You don't need a full blown Xcode install.
  - daneel_w 3y ago
    No, you can build pretty much everything from homebrew using just the command line developer tools. It's been like that for 7-8 years, if not more. Off the top of my head I've only once ever run into a homebrew recipe requiring "xcodebuild" to proceed.
daneel_w 3y ago
If it's just git and the compiler environment ("SDK") you need then the command line developer tools suffice. The download is something like 700 MiB.
ParetoOptimal 3y ago
Not if you use the Nix package manager: https://nixos.org/ https://nixos.org/ Before that though I used to only install command line tools. At some point though, I forgot the incantation for it and realized I could just use Nix for git as I was using it for other things already.
acedTrex 3y ago
no you don't. You just need the devtools which are like 2 gigs. I have developed on mac for years and have never had xcode installed.
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Or download the official git binary (https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/) if you don't even want devtools. Been a while since I did that, but there are plenty of other things I avoid building or downloading from a package manager (like NodeJS or Python).
  - nomel 3y ago
    > the official git binary Unfortunately, as the git website [1] states, these are fairly out of date (currently 2.33 from 2021-08-30). To get something recent, you have to build them yourself, which requires...devtools. Seems bizarre, to me, that they don't have them built automatically. [1] https://git-scm.com/download/mac https://git-scm.com/download/mac
    - hot_gril 3y ago
      Yeah, it's weird how out of date it is, but it also doesn't matter a lot. I think my laptop still has a version of git from 2018.
      - nomel 3y ago
        Some tools, with git integration, require the newer versions. For example, newer PyCharm requires newer git.
        hot_gril 3y ago
        That makes sense.

That is crazy. Im also bitter that you basically need xcode for git on macOS

dubcanada 3y ago

You need the developer tools (like 2.5gb), or homebrew.

murphyslaw 3y ago
A lot of homebrew installs (those from code) require Apple's compile time stuff which only xcode has.
- sigzero 3y ago
  You can only install the command line tools now. You don't need a full blown Xcode install.
- daneel_w 3y ago
  No, you can build pretty much everything from homebrew using just the command line developer tools. It's been like that for 7-8 years, if not more. Off the top of my head I've only once ever run into a homebrew recipe requiring "xcodebuild" to proceed.

daneel_w 3y ago

If it's just git and the compiler environment ("SDK") you need then the command line developer tools suffice. The download is something like 700 MiB.

ParetoOptimal 3y ago

Not if you use the Nix package manager: https://nixos.org/ https://nixos.org/ Before that though I used to only install command line tools. At some point though, I forgot the incantation for it and realized I could just use Nix for git as I was using it for other things already.

acedTrex 3y ago

no you don't. You just need the devtools which are like 2 gigs. I have developed on mac for years and have never had xcode installed.

hot_gril 3y ago
Or download the official git binary (https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/) if you don't even want devtools. Been a while since I did that, but there are plenty of other things I avoid building or downloading from a package manager (like NodeJS or Python).
- nomel 3y ago
  > the official git binary Unfortunately, as the git website [1] states, these are fairly out of date (currently 2.33 from 2021-08-30). To get something recent, you have to build them yourself, which requires...devtools. Seems bizarre, to me, that they don't have them built automatically. [1] https://git-scm.com/download/mac https://git-scm.com/download/mac
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    Yeah, it's weird how out of date it is, but it also doesn't matter a lot. I think my laptop still has a version of git from 2018.
    - nomel 3y ago
      Some tools, with git integration, require the newer versions. For example, newer PyCharm requires newer git.
      - hot_gril 3y ago
        That makes sense.