GIT Installation

Required packages before installation

Install the prerequisite packages and remove the any current Git installation.

yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel -y

yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker -y

yum remove git -y

Download the latest Git installation from kernel.org and unpack it.

cd /usr/src

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.x.x.tar.gz

tar xzf git-2.2.2.tar.gz

Install it.

cd git-2.2.2

make prefix=/usr/local/git all

make prefix=/usr/local/git install

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin" >> /etc/bashrc

source /etc/bashrc

Test it, by checking the version.

git --version