I have this "Error Running Git" message when trying to clone from GitHub in PyCharm, it says "cannot run program "/usr/local/bin/git: error=2, no such file or directory". I guess I need to configure "path to git executable"? But I don't know how, I'm very new to using git. And this only occurs lately, after I updated the PyCharm lately.
Updated: After put in the new path, I got an new error:
This means that the XCode Command Line Tools haven't been installed. Open and terminal window and type:
xcode-select --install
This will trigger the install and clear up the problem.
(thank you to @totalhorizon: https://tips.tutorialhorizon.com/2015/10/01/xcrun-error-invalid-active-developer-path-library-developer-commandline-tools-missing-xcrun)
[Not tested]
Looks like this happens because of bad xcrun path. Try this:
1. Find where is xcrun located using which xcrun and add it to the given path: ln -s [path from which crun]/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
2. Reinstall developer directory manager using xcode-select --install.
Press Ctrl+Alt+S then type "git". This will bring you to the git settings. Here you can specify the correct path to the git executable.
This screenshot is from IntelliJ; you should see something very similar in PyCharm.
My IDEs (PyCharm, GoLand and IntelliJ) were working fine. In order to build a source code from GitHub, I had to install Xcode. However, since my company had not updated our Macs to latest OS, (We are on Catalina while the latest is Big Sur), I had to install an older (compatible) version of Xcode.
The installation of older Xcode resulted in overwriting of git to an older version. Running xcode-select --install had no effect since the OS itself was older. All I'd get is:
mac t2 % sudo xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates
Even running sudo softwareupdate -ia returned:
mac t2 % sudo softwareupdate -ia
Software Update Tool
Finding available software
No updates are available.
To work around this, I used brew to install git for me. Ran, brew install git and it updated a whole bunch of things along with installing latest version of git. Restarted my IDEs and none of them complained anymore.
I solve this problem by the following 3 steps:
xcode-select --install;/usr/local/git/bin/git