To reproduce

• Install git cleanly (on my account :-D)
• try to start git from a new terminal
• it isn't found.

On my user account, .bash_profile isn't executed, but .bashrc is.

I created a new account, and .bash_profile is executed there! So this can't be repro'ed on a new account.

I'm not sure what's different about my account - the only relevant bash file I have there is .bashrc and of course .bash_history. I never noticed this difference before because I just put things in .bashrc.

But if my account is different, there must be other people whose accounts are different; the installer needs to take this into account.

Did you have ~/.profile ?

My understanding is that .profile is executed if it exists. Then, .bash_profile is executed if .profile doesn't exist.

There's no .profile.

Oh, dear, this is so embarrassing. I restarted my whole user session after that last one and now .bash_profile runs every time in a new shell, I see my annoying debugging messages that weren't there.

I can't see what I might have done to prevent it from running before. This machine's been up for quite a while now, perhaps that was it.

:-( Sorry.

p.s. - I've posted more than plenty of issues like this :) Thanks for taking the time to report how your experience is and helping to make the installer better.