I did it in this way: Open GitHub application installed on Mac Click on Advanced tab → Install command line tools Once you get a message that all commands have been installed close your terminal and reopen it. Now check git -version, it should give you the latest version. Instructor Before you can start usingGit version control in Dreamweaver CC,Git needs to be installed in your local computer.In this video, I'll show you how to do it on a Mac.First let's see whether Git is already installed.To do that, we need to open Terminal.I've got it here in my Dock,but you can also find it Application Utilities.At command line, type git. There are several ways to install Git on a Mac. The easiest is probably to install the Xcode Command Line Tools. On Mavericks (10.9) or above you can do this simply. Beginner's Setup Guide for Git & Github on Mac OS X. There is an updated version of this post for OS X 10.9. While the steps below should still work, I recommend checking out the new guide if you are running 10.9! There are already plenty of guides that explain the particular steps of getting Git and Github going on your mac in detail. Why install GitHub for Mac? The command line interface can be intimidating, hard to use, and you have to memorize all the commands. Additionally, GitHub has some specific features that are not part of Git. In this tutorial, we will install GitHub for Mac, a nice a free GUI for Git / GitHub.
In this tutorial, I will go over the instructions to setup a git server on Mac OS X. Here, I will assume that the server IP address is 12.34.56.78How To Install Git On Mac Sierra
.First, you will need to add a user named git, into which client machines will ssh into. To do so,
1. Open up System Preferences -> Users & Groups.
2. You may need to click the Lock image to make any changes.
3. Click on the + button to add a user.
4. Add a standard user whose full name and account name is git. Enter password.
5. Click on Create User button.
Next, you will need to allow ssh login for user git from client machines. To do so,
1. Open up System Preferences -> Sharing
2. Check Remote Login box.
From your client system, make sure that you can remote log into the server's
From your client system, make sure that you can remote log into the server's git account.
$ ssh git@12.34.56.78 -p 22
Note that here I am assuming that you are using the port 22 to access the server. Depending on your router or firewall configuration, the port number may differ.
If you can successfully log into the account, then you are pretty much done. Let's assume that you will want to create a repository named Project. From the git
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account from the server or through ssh, run$ pwd
/Users/git
$ git init --bare Project.git
This will create a bare Project repository on the server, which clients can clone, push to, and pull from. The location of this repository in this case is /Users/git/Project.git, as you can see from pwd command above. To clone this repository from a client, you will need to run the following from the client
$ git clone ssh://git@12.34.56.78:22/Users/git/Project.git
You will need to enter the password for the server's git account, as if you are remote logging into it through ssh. You should now have a personal git server.
Note: If you are concerned with safety, you may want to disable password login and instead only allow public key authentication. I will cover how to do so in the future post.
