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    Re-installing Git on Mac OSX with Brew

This is helpful if you've previously installed git from source on OSX, and other compilers can't find the correct path. You need to remove the current version of git, then re-install with brew.
Uninstall git if installed manually


Check which git you're running:
which git

output should be similar to this: /usr/bin/git


Remove that git install
sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/git/
sudo rm /etc/paths.d/git
sudo rm /etc/manpaths.d/git
sudo pkgutil --forget --pkgs=GitOSX\.Installer\.git[A-Za-z0-9]*\.[a-z]*.pkg


Re-install git with brew

brew uninstall git
brew update
brew install git

Check which git you're now running:
which git

Should now say: /usr/local/bin/git