Spyder prompts to install command line tools in macOS

Issue Report Checklist

• [Y ] Searched the issues page for similar reports
• [Y] Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• [Y] Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• [Y ] Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
• [Y ] Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
  • [Y ] Restarted Spyder
  • [Y ] Reset preferences with spyder --reset
  • [Y ] Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
  • [Y ] Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
• [Y ] Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

Installed the new version of spyder today. Everytime i click to a different tab a prompt appears as which asks to install Xcode, saying git is a part of Command Line Developer Tools. plz see the image I have attached. Its really annoying and I dont want to install Xcode. What can be done to remove this prompt to appear?

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Installed the latest version of spyder, which removed a lot of packages which i reinstalled manually using pip install
2. opening two or more files as different tabs and clicking any of them causes this to appear

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.1.1
• Python version: 3.7.0 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.12.7
• PyQt version: 5.12.3
• Operating System name/version: MacOs Mojave 10.14.6

[juanis2112]

Thank you for your help! We really appreciate it! We will merge the PR soon so we don’t have this issue on our next release which should be available next week 😃 @ccordoba12 please merge the PR!

[juanis2112]

Thanks @tfetherolf for testing this. I will try to fix this other minor issue and let you know to see if you can help us test again!