git gui not working after installing in Mac (e.g. Mountain Lion)

Question

When I ran git gui, I got this:

$ git gui
git: \'gui\' is not a git command. See \'git --help\'.

Did you mean one of these?
    grep
    init
    p         


        

Answer 1

Edit your git config to an add an entry for gui in the alias section

nano ~/.gitconfig

[alias]

gui = !sh -c '/usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git-gui'

Edit 2020

It looks like the path in the original answer is now obsolete. Updated instructions:

[alias]

gui = !sh -c '/usr/local/opt/git/bin/git gui'