Allow Anyway / Open Anyway only works for a few days

After I click "Allow Anyway" in Securiy & Settings, the app works for a few days but then gets blocked again and I have to go through the process again. This is extremely annoying because the app in question is git-lfs. Unless this gets fixed it is impossible to use macOS for programming.

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 8, 2020 4:03 AM

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Posted on May 10, 2020 1:47 PM

It sounds like neither GitHub nor IntelliJ is paying attention to developments in macOS over the past several years.


You can manually remove the quarantine bits from git-lfs with the following command:


sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/git-lfs

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May 8, 2020 8:30 AM in response to ooBartek

That’s why I was confused about your post. That particular control in System Preferences > Security & Privacy is only for kernel extensions. The git-ifs tool doesn’t need or use any kernel extensions. You could have a problem with git-ifs, and you could have a problem with kernel extensions, but those would be two separate, unrelated problems.

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