Aral Balkan

I'm giving Git a shot after attending Leeky's great introduction to it at BarcampBrighton3.

Update: Check out Leeky's slides.

Getting up and running with it was simple enough using the Git OS X installer.

I also installed the awesome ProjectPlus plug-in for TextMate (put it into ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Plugins, creating any of the folders that don't already exist) which gives TortoiseSVN-style overlay icons for Git and SVN. Although it worked off the bat for SVN (via the built-in SVN in Leopard), I didn't get the icon overlays for Git repositories.

The problem, according to this comment, on the ProjectPlus announcement post, is that ProjectPlus expects Git to be in a certain place (/usr/local/bin/git) whereas the OS X installer installs it in /usr/local/git/bin/git. In order to fix this, just create a symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/local/git/bin/git /usr/local/bin/git

Restart TextMate and bring up a project that's under Git and you should see your lovely iconic overlays. (This shouldn't affect you if you used Macports to install Git.)

Comments

• To install a .tmplugin file you should just double-click it (TextMate will automatically create the folder if necessary and then move the plug-in there, and it will prompt you to restart TextMate). As for setting up your path: what you should do is go into TextMate’s preferences and then switch to the Advanced section and choose the Shell Variables tab. Then make a new variable called TM_GIT, and set it to the path to your git executable. This way you don’t have to mess about with symlinks, and it will also work with the Git bundle (http://gitorious.org/projects/git-tmbundle).

  by Ciarán Walsh on 2008-09-07 22:40:12

• I'll second the Git bundle as being really, really useful. Definitely worth checking out.

  by Dominic Mitchell on 2008-09-08 05:58:01

• Super helpful -- thanks Aral.

  by Jake Camara on 2009-04-10 16:45:14

• Yes, that did it. Thanks!

  by Simon on 2010-02-11 16:21:39

• I think should be like this cd /usr/local sudo mkdir -p git/bin/git sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/git /usr/local/git/bin/git it worked...

  by Özgür on 2010-02-03 12:43:25

• Did this, and also tried Ciarán's suggestions in your comments (as well as similar ones mentioned on Ciarán's site) No joy whatsoever. The *really* annoying thing is that I already have this working on my laptop - the only difference between the 2 systems is that git is living in /usr/local/bin on the laptop, whereas on the iMac, the /usr/local/bin directory didn't even exist, I had to create it, then symlink. That seems....wrong to me somehow....

  by James on 2010-02-23 06:00:37