error: unable to find utility "git", not a developer tool or in PATH

Question

I have updated Xcode version to 7.3.1.when I use 'git status',I find an error! as follow:

$git status
sh: line 1:  1601 Segmentation fault: 11  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -sdk / -find git 2> /dev/null
git: error: unable to find utility "git", not a developer tool or in PATH

Thank you advanced!

Kislev

My Mac Opeation System version is OS X 10.11.5 – Kislev

Answer 1

The best solution will be to download and install it - even that you assume it is already installed: https://git-scm.com/download/mac

Selfhypnosis

Thank you very much for your help! I have solved this problem in the way that you provided! – Kislev

If you have Homebrew installed, you can install Git via the brew install git command. See here: git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Getting-Started-Installing-Git – Slipway

This is a workaround that doesn't fix the underlying problem -- that xcode for some reason fails to launch developer tools. It should not be the accepted answer. You will just run into the same problem with other developer tools. – Jos

well, at the time of the question (more than 3 years ago), it solved the problem for him so he accepted the answer. – Selfhypnosis

Answer 2

This happened to me also with upgrading to High Sierra and XCode to 9. This sequence has fixed it.

xcode-select --install
sudo xcode-select -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Found this answer on https://davidwalsh.name/fix-git-high-sierra-upgrade (article and comments.)

Gastroenteritis

Thanks this is amazing! :) – Nervous

This is the best answer because it requires no reboot or restart :) Through many cycles of sleep/wake terminal can lose reference to command line tools. If you already have xcode-select installed (as many do) just running the second line fixes this. – Morril

Answer 3

I had this same problem -- I exited my bash session (closed the terminal) and started a new one and it fixed it.

Overbalance

THX...it's a weird problem – Mesmerism

Same here, it would be the right answer, just the terminal lost the session. – Apportion

This was useful for MacOS 10.13 and Xcode 9.3 (after reinstalling commandline tools) – Hasbeen

Answer 4

I had the same issue after upgrading to Big Sur. I fixed this issue by running the following command:

sudo xcode-select -switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

P.S. I did not need to run this command: xcode-select --install

Warden

Answer 5

For me, I had to uninstall and reinstall all my brew applications, as documented here.

i.e.

brew list -1 > brew.txt # list out all installed packages
brew list -1 | xargs brew rm --force # remove all installed packages
brew install $(cat brew.txt | tr '\n' ' ') # install all previously installed packages

Au

Answer 6

None of the above solutions fixed the issue for me, I had to actually just restart my computer which fixed it. This was a weird bug.

Agentive