Last modified: 2013-04-15 21:50:09 UTC
following Bug 38783 which git -> /usr/local/bin/git so all ubuntu users have to change there localsetting to make this work!
The path is determined during installation !
But why is the default setting /usr/bin/git is there any evidence that this is more common the /usr/local/bin/git
How have you installed git ? If it is installed by the linux distribution it would usually ends up in /usr/bin/git When you compile from source (with ./configure ), the default prefix is /usr/local to avoid overlapping with the distribution version. Having in your bashrc something like: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" Would load the locally installed binary before looking at the distribution ones.
