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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 the official git binary Unfortunately, as the git website [1] states, these are fairly out of date (currently 2.33 from 2021-08-30).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      Yeah, it's weird how out of date it is, but it also doesn't matter a lot.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.