Query when installing plugins When installing a plugin from the plugin store I get a popup telling me:
"The git command requires the command line developer tools. Would you like to install the tools now?"
"Choose Install to continue. Chose Get Xcode to install Xcode and the command line developer tools from the app store."
Options are "Get Xcode", "Not now" and "Install"
I tried just clicking Install, and it seems to have worked but I got another prompt like above at the end. So I don't know if something will fail sometime down the line or not.
After installing on my local Mamp setup it's not obvious which files I need to upload to the live server as there isn't a plugin folder. I only installed 2 plugins and 12 folders in the Vendor folder showed updated files in them.

I don't use git, I don't use the command line and I didn't install Composer and I don't really want to in the future either. I just want to keep things simple. Does this mean that I won't be able to use Craft now unless I become a command line expert?
Even the Mijingo video tutorials which have been really easy to follow in the past have started to be full of complicated command line stuff.
I have a rubbish memory and only use a few keyboard shortcuts as I can't remember more than 3 or 4, so remembering all those command line options isn't going to happen.
Going to mark this as off-topic (Craft issues should be posted to https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues, which I realize is a bit ironic to tell you considering you said you don’t want to use Git, but you don’t need to use Git to open a GitHub account).

That said, the issue is that Craft 3 uses Composer behind the scenes to install plugins and update itself right now. So even though you don’t need to directly interface with Composer now that the zip option is available, the system you are running on must at least be able to run Composer. And Git is a requirement of Composer.

For this and other reasons, we are planning on making Craft 3 less reliant on Composer in a future update.


  After installing on my local Mamp setup it's not obvious which files I need to upload to the live server as there isn't a plugin folder.


You need to upload the entire vendor/ folder.


  Does this mean that I won't be able to use Craft now unless I become a command line expert?


As long as your system is capable of running Composer (which it sounds like you’ve taken care of), no you shouldn’t need to run any commands from the terminal yourself.


  Even the Mijingo video tutorials which have been really easy to follow in the past have started to be full of complicated command line stuff.


Up until the Craft 3 GA launch on April 4, the only way to install Craft 3 was via the terminal. Now that a zip download is available from https://craftcms.com, that’s not the case anymore.