I suspect that this might be standard behaviour when dealing with Xcode.. but I'm inexperienced with building xcode projects so I'm not sure. Could anyone confirm?

Here's what happened:

• downloaded latest release (0.22)
• moved it into /Applications (and replaced the older version)
• opened up a terminal session, and ran gitx from the command line (GitX opens)
• selected "About GitX" from the GitX menu to ensure it was running the downloaded version, but noticed that it was running an older version ❗ (0.13-xxxxx afair)
• checked which gitx, which shows /usr/local/bin/gitx
• checked ls -l $(which gitx), which shows that /usr/local/bin/gitx is a symlink to /Applications/GitX.app/Contents/Resources/gitx
• closed GitX
• opened GitX via Spotlight (cmd-space); "About GitX" now shows 0.22
• opened gitx via the cli; "About GitX" now shows the old version again
• ps -ef | grep -i gitx shows that I'm running /Users/janeklb/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/GitX-aqlqktsdnvbaaafnhydtdvkmtcll/Build/Products/Debug/gitx
  • i had built GitX earlier this year as part of failures building with xcode 13.2.1  #239 though that was my first time playing around with Xcode
• closed GitX and opened again via Spotlight
• ps -ef | grep -i gitx shows that I'm running /Applications/GitX.app/Contents/Resources/gitx

I then moved + archived /Users/janeklb/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/GitX-aqlqktsdnvbaaafnhydtdvkmtcll and tried running gitx from the CLI, and was presented with some errors (unfortunately I don't have the output - I had cleared the terminal). After I restarted my macbook - and possibly did some other things that I don't recall - and then encountered #336 whenever trying to run gitx. I've downgraded to 0.21 for now - this discussion post isn't about that issue.

So, it looks like I've been running a locally-built GitX since February, despite downloading new GitX.app releases and placing them in /Applications!

Is this standard behaviour when dealing with Xcode projects that you have built locally and download too?