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What's an easy way to fix the default git installation on OSX?

Wait for a macOS security update that includes it. If you don’t want to wait, macports and homebrew will both be patched much faster.

Isn't git distributed with the Xcode command line tools?

Yes, so you’ll probably get a new version when 12.5 drops (maybe later this month?)

I did a `brew install git` and then deleted /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git. You can't delete /usr/bin/git even with sudo (system integrity policy).

After installing git via brew and removing the one in CommandLineTools, /usr/bin/git is showing the latest version.

    me@local % git --version
    git version 2.30.2

I don't know if this is recommended or if it will have negative consequences that i don't know about, but it seemed like the way I could accomplish it. Given that /usr/bin/git is working with the homebrew installed git, I'm hopeful that everything will be good.

I don't use Mac, so I can't speak yo how the changes you made will affect your system. For future reference however, you should know that binaries are searched on your $PATH in order. Instead of deleting anything, you could have edited your $PATH variable so that the directory that brew stores binaries in is searched before other locations.

brew install git

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