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		unspecified on Dec 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git client vulnerability announced Thanks for this. Might want to move the original /usr/bin/git out of the way, rather than outright deleting it, juuuuust in case you end up needing the original binary.

jazzychad on Dec 18, 2014 [–]

/usr/bin/git is usually a soft symlink, so the original binary is still there when you rm the synlink. You can see the actual location by doing

    ls -al /usr/bin/git

If it's not in fact a symlink then yes you should probably rename it to preserve it.

Demiurge on Dec 19, 2014 | [–]

Yosemite, mine is not

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