[SOLVED] Did Apple remove the 'git gui' command in Xcode 4.5 command line tools?

Did Apple remove the 'git gui' command in Xcode 4.5 command line tools?

After updating to Xcode 4.5 and installing the developer tools I can no longer run the 'git gui' command from the command line. It says:

$ git gui
git: 'gui' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

I'm running this version:

$ git --version
git version 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33)

Searching the git docs (http://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui) shows 'git gui' should be available, and hasn't changed since version 1.7.7. So did this Apple version of git remove this command? I use it all the time!

Solution

Apple did indeed remove the 'git gui' command, probably because they were removing X11 which 'git gui' is based on.

I decided to just homebrew git instead of relying on the Xcode command line tools.

brew install git

Then I edited the /etc/paths file to have the /usr/local/bin directory come before the /usr/bin directory, because that wasn't right either. Then exited the terminal window and restarted, and now I get:

$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git

$ git --version
git version 1.7.12.1

and the git gui command works again.