Could not find any SCM named git

I have been wrestling with capistrano and git, when I ran the following I got an error:

$ cap deploy:check

could not find any SCM named `git'

I ran 'which git' by hand on both my local box and remote box.

on the remote box:

$ which git

/usr/local/bin/git

on the local box:

$ which git

/usr/local/git/bin//git

not sure what the issue was, but I tried to set the following in my deploy.rb without success:

set :local_scm_command, "/usr/local/git/bin/git"

set :scm_command, "/usr/local/bin/git"

ultimately, my fix was to uninstall and reinstall git on my local machine.

now on the local box:

$ which git

/usr/local/bin/git

now

$ cap deploy:check

You appear to have all necessary dependencies installed