Invalid active developer path error after upgrading to El Capitan

Question

I ran into this error trying to push to git, when I typed git init.

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path
(/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Answer 1

1)

try typing in "xcode-select -print-path" and see if the path you see is the path you're expecting for your current Xcode version.

2)

If you go to:

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

(you'll need to sign in with your Apple Developer account)

Once there, you'll see links for "Command Line Tools". It sounds like you need to install MacOS 10.11 Command Line Tools for Xcode 7.

Answer 2

Try:

sudo xcode-select -r

in this way it unsets any user-specified developer directory, so that the developer directory will be found via the default search mechanism.

Answer 3

If you have Catalina and Xcode 11 and you have this problem, then go to Xcode Preferences and select Location tab, check that the Command Line tool dropdown has Xcode 11.0 selected. If Xcode 11 is not there then you need to download and install Command-line tools for Xcode 11 here (choose the correct Beta)

https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?=command%20line%20tools

Answer 4

You can select command line tools from the XCode Preferences shown in the screenshot below.

You will be prompted for password.

Answer 5

This is all you need to do:

$ xcode-select --install