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Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development by paradite on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:55AM (#12218347)
The one pre-installed is way outdated. Better off install the latest version using homebrew.
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Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development by stephenr on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:09AM (#12218475)
The one shipped by Apple on OS X 10.11.6 is 2.7.4, which was released in March this year. That's hardly "way outdated".

> Better off install the latest version using homebrew.

The Git project provides package to install binaries for OSX. Homebrew's name would be more accurate to the reality of the product if it's name was bathtub-whiskey.

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Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development by paradite on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:18AM (#12218563)
They updated it, following this incident:

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/05/05/xcode/

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Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development by bdash on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @07:44PM (#12222359)
Note that Git ships with Xcode, not part of OS X itself. Xcode 7.3.1 updated Git to v2.7.4. Xcode 8, likely to GM in the next month or two, includes Git v2.8.4.
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Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development by erikpukinskis on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:19PM (#12219089)
Is git changing that fast? I'm not sure I've ever upgraded git on any machine.
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Re:How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development by stevenwiles on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:52PM (#12221851)
You are misinformed.
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