How to install latest version of git on CentOS 7 x 6 x

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I used the usual    yum install git   It did not install the latest version of git on my CentOS 6  How can I update to the latest version of git for CentOS 6  The solution can be applicable to newer versions of CentOS such as CentOS 7

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Build latest version of git on Centos 6 7  Preparing system to building rpms   Install epel   For EL6  use    sudo yum install https   dl fedoraproject org pub epel epel-release-latest-6 noarch rpm     For EL7  use    sudo yum install https   dl fedoraproject org pub epel epel-release-latest-7 noarch rpm  Install fedpkg   sudo yum install fedpkg  Add yourself into group mock  you might need to re-login to server after this change    sudo usermod -a -G mock  USER    Download git   Download git sources   fedpkg clone -a git  amp  amp  cd git fedpkg sources  Verify sources   sha512sum -c sources    Build rpm   Create srmp  Use el6 for RHEL6  el7 for RHEL7   fedpkg --dist el7 srpm  Build package in mock   mock -r epel-7-x86 64 git-2 16 0-1 el7 src rpm  Install latest version of git rpm from  var lib mock epel-7-x86 64 result   Note  you might need to uninstall existing version of the git from your system first    This instruction is based on the mailing list post by Todd Zullinger

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This guide worked    hostnamectl   Operating System  CentOS Linux 7  Core    git --version git version 1 8 3 1   sudo yum remove git    sudo yum -y install https   packages endpoint com rhel 7 os x86 64 endpoint-repo-1 7-1 x86 64 rpm   sudo yum install git   git --version git version 2 24 1

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I found this nice and easy-to-follow guide on how to download the GIT source and compile it yourself  and install it   If the accepted answer does not give you the version you want  try the following instructions   http   tecadmin net install-git-2-0-on-centos-rhel-fedora    And pasted reformatted from above source in case it is removed later   Step 1  Install Required Packages  Firstly we need to make sure that we have installed required packages on your system  Use following command to install required packages before compiling Git source     yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel   yum install  gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker   Step 2  Uninstall old Git RPM  Now remove any prior installation of Git through RPM file or Yum package manager  If your older version is also compiled through source  then skip this step     yum remove git   Step 3  Download and Compile Git Source  Download git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2 5 3     cd  usr src   wget https   www kernel org pub software scm git git-2 5 3 tar gz   tar xzf git-2 5 3 tar gz   After downloading and extracting Git source code  Use following command to compile source code     cd git-2 5 3   make prefix  usr local git all   make prefix  usr local git install   echo  pathmunge  usr local git bin    gt   etc profile d git sh    chmod  x  etc profile d git sh   source  etc bashrc   Step 4  Check Git Version  On completion of above steps  you have successfully install Git in your system  Use the following command to check the git version    git --version  git version 2 5 3   I also wanted to add that the  Getting Started  guide at the GIT website also includes instructions on how to download and compile it yourself    http   git-scm com book en v2 Getting-Started-Installing-Git

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as git says       RHEL and derivatives typically ship older versions of git  You can   download a tarball and build from source  or use a 3rd-party   repository such as the IUS Community Project to obtain a more recent   version of git    there  is good tutorial here  in my case  Centos7 server  after install had to logout and login again

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You can use WANDisco s CentOS repository to install Git 2 x  for CentOS 6  for CentOS 7   Install WANDisco repo package   yum install http   opensource wandisco com centos 6 git x86 64 wandisco-git-release-6-1 noarch rpm - or - yum install http   opensource wandisco com centos 7 git x86 64 wandisco-git-release-7-1 noarch rpm - or - yum install http   opensource wandisco com centos 7 git x86 64 wandisco-git-release-7-2 noarch rpm  Install the latest version of Git 2 x   yum install git  Verify the version of Git that was installed   git --version    As of 02 Mar  2020  the latest available version from WANDisco is 2 22 0

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If git already installed first remove old git sudo yum remove git   Add IUS CentOS 7 repo sudo yum -y install  https   repo ius io ius-release-el7 rpm sudo yum -y install  git2u-all  Now check git version after installing git2u-all package  If docker is installed on your machine then ius-release may create problem  git --version  bingo

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My personal preference is to build rpm packages for CentOS when installing non-standard software and replacing distributed components   For this I recommend that you use Mock to create a clean build environment   The procedure is    Obtain the source RPMS or a suitable SPEC file and pristine source tarball   In this case one may find source RPM packages for git2X for CentOS-6 at   http   dl iuscommunity org pub ius archive CentOS 6 SRPMS   Packages for other CentOS releases are also available  Install the necessary support software   yum install epel-release    you need this for mock yum install rpm-build yum install redhat-rpm-config yum install rpmdevtools yum install mock  Add a rpm build user account  do not build as root or as a real user - security issues will come back to bite you    sudo adduser builder --home-dir  home builder   --create-home --user-group --groups mock   --shell  bin bash --comment  rpm package builder   Next we need a build environment   su -l builder rpmdev-setuptree   This produces the following directory structure      -- rpmbuild      -- BUILD      -- RPMS      -- SOURCES      -- SPECS      -- SRPMS  We are using a prepared SRPMS so the SOURCES tarballs can be ignored for this case and we can go direct to SRPMS   wget http   dl iuscommunity org pub ius archive CentOS 6 SRPMS git2u-2 5 3-1 ius centos6 src rpm   -O   rpmbuild SRPMS git2u-2 5 3-1 ius centos6 src rpm  Configure mock  as root   cd  etc mock rm default cfg ln -s epel-6-x86 64 cfg default cfg vim default cfg   Disable the beta repos  Enable the base and update repos  Initialize the build tree   var lib mock is default   mock --init  If we were building from SOURCES then this is where we would employ the SPEC file and use mock --buildsrpm         But in this case we go directly to the binary build step   mock --no-clean --rebuild   rpmbuild SRPMS git2u-2 5 3-1 ius centos6 src rpm   This will resolve the build dependencies and download them  about 95 or so packages  into the clean build root  It will then extract the sources and build the binary from the provided SRPM and leave it in  var lib mock epel-6-x86 64 result  or in whatever custom build root location and architecture you provided   It will take a long time  There is a lot to this package  particularly documentation  If all goes well then you should end up with a suit of RPM packages suitable for installation in place of the distro version   This is what I ended up with   ll  var lib mock epel-6-x86 64 result total 34996 -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   448455 Oct 30 10 09 build log -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    52464 Oct 30 10 09 emacs-git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    47228 Oct 30 10 09 emacs-git2u-el-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock  8474478 Oct 30 09 57 git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 src rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock  8877584 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    27284 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-all-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    27800 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-bzr-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   112564 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-cvs-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   436176 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-daemon-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock 15858600 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-debuginfo-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    60556 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-email-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   274888 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-gui-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    79176 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-p4-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   483132 Oct 30 10 09 git2u-svn-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   173732 Oct 30 10 09 gitk2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   115692 Oct 30 10 09 gitweb2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    57196 Oct 30 10 09 perl-Git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock    89900 Oct 30 10 09 perl-Git2u-SVN-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock   101026 Oct 30 10 09 root log -rw-rw-r--  1 byrnejb mock      980 Oct 30 10 09 state log  Install using yum or rpm   You will require git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm at a minimum and such additional support packages as it requires  perl-Git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm  or you desire     This build has a cyclic dependency  git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm depends upon perl-Git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm and perl-Git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm depends upon git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm  A straight install with rpm will thus fail   There are two ways of dealing with it    Install both at the same time via yum   yum localinstall     git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 x86 64 rpm     perl-Git2u-2 5 3-1 ius el6 noarch rpm   Setup a local yum repo   I am including my LocalFile repo file below as it contains instructions on how to do this and provides the necessary repo file at the same time       cat  etc yum repos d LocalFile repo   LocalFile repo      This repo is used with a local filesystem repo      To use this repo place the rpm package in  root RPMS yum repo Packages    Then run  createrepo --database --update  root RPMS yum repo      To use     yum --enablerepo localfile  command        or to use only ONLY this repo  do this       yum --disablerepo    --enablerepo localfile  command    localfile  baseurl file    root RPMS yum repo name CentOS- releasever - Local Filesystem repo    Before persistently enabling this repo see the priority note below  enabled 0 gpgcheck 0    When this repo is enabled all packages in repos with priority gt 5   will not be updated even when they have a more recent version    Be careful with this  priority 5   You also may be required to manually pre-install additional dependency packages such as perl-TermReadKey available from the usual repositories

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Adding a roundabout answer here  I was struggling to install git on an RHEL 6 0 Amazon instance  and what ended up saving me was     conda  as in Anaconda Python   I installed conda on the command line from the archives  code modeled after this    wget http   repo continuum io miniconda Miniconda2-4 2 12-Linux-x86 64 sh -O   miniconda sh bash   miniconda sh -b -p  HOME miniconda export PATH   HOME miniconda bin  PATH    and then ran  conda install git   and a relatively recent version git was installed  Today is 12 26 2016 and the version is 2 9 3

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To build and install modern Git on CentOS 6   yum install -y curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker export GIT VERSION 2 6 4 mkdir  root git cd  root git wget  https   www kernel org pub software scm git git-  GIT VERSION  tar gz  tar xvzf  git-  GIT VERSION  tar gz  cd git-  GIT VERSION  make prefix  usr local all make prefix  usr local install yum remove -y git git --version   should be GIT VERSION

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This may be irrelevant  It is for people don t want build the latest git on the host meanwhile they still can get the latest git   I think most people don t like building the latest git on CentOS because the dependencies will contaminate the host and you have to run lots of commands  Therefore  I have an idea which is building git inside the Docker container and then install the executable via the docker volume mount  After that  you can delete the image and container   Yes  the downside is you have to install docker  But the least dependencies are introduced to the host and you don t have to install other yum repo   Here is my repository  https   github com wood1986 docker-library tree master git

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Having a look at the blog here I found the solution in one of the comments  Make sure you got the rpmforge repository added to your CentOS yum and just run the flowing command   yum --disablerepo base updates --enablerepo rpmforge-extras install git   If you already have git installed then use   yum --disablerepo base updates --enablerepo rpmforge-extras update git   Related question s     Facing issues while upgrading git to latest version on CentOS 6 4   Note update   Thanks to Anthony Hatzopoulos  for git v1 8x you ll need to use git18 as in   yum --disablerepo base updates --enablerepo rpmforge-extras install git18    Note update 2   Also thanks to   Axlrod for the below hint and  Hiphip for the feedback   Change the rpmforge repo file to have rpmforge-extras to enabled  yum update git  Otherwise it complained about dependency problems   Note update 3      Installing a specific version of git say 2 x   I found this nice and easy-to-follow guide on how to download the GIT source and compile it yourself  and install it   If the accepted answer does not give you the version you want  try the following instructions    http   tecadmin net install-git-2-0-on-centos-rhel-fedora    And pasted reformatted from above source in case it is removed later   Step 1  Install Required Packages  Firstly we need to make sure that we have installed required packages on your system  Use following command to install required packages before compiling Git source     yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel   yum install  gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker   Step 2  Uninstall old Git RPM  Now remove any prior installation of Git through RPM file or Yum package manager  If your older version is also compiled through source  then skip this step     yum remove git   Step 3  Download and Compile Git Source  Download git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2 0 4     cd  usr src   wget https   www kernel org pub software scm git git-2 0 4 tar gz   tar xzf git-2 0 4 tar gz   After downloading and extracting Git source code  Use following command to compile source code     cd git-2 0 4   make prefix  usr local git all   make prefix  usr local git install     echo  export PATH  PATH  usr local git bin   gt  gt   etc bashrc    or   echo  export PATH  PATH  usr local git bin   gt   etc profile d git sh     source  etc bashrc      HINT 1     Updated method of adding compiled git bin directory to bashrc  Because echo  export PATH  PATH  usr local git bin   gt  gt   etc bashrc used    instead of     it would expand the current session s value for  PATH instead of keeping it as a variable  and could adversely affect the entire system  At the minimum  it should use    instead of    and should really be a separate script in  etc profile d       HINT 2   DJB      usr local git bin before  PATH  since the older version of git was already on  PATH  export PATH  usr local git bin  PATH   Step 4  Check Git Version  One completion of above steps  you have successfully install Git in your system  Let use following command to check git version    git --version  git version 2 0 4   I also wanted to add that the  Getting Started  guide at the GIT website also includes instructions on how to download and compile it yourself    http   git-scm com book en v2 Getting-Started-Installing-Git

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It can be very confusing  and dangerous  to replace the upstream base repositories with add-on repositories without considerable testing and thought  RPMforge  in particularly  is effectively moribund and is not getting updates   I personally publish tools for building git 2 4  wrapped as an alternatively named  git24  package  at https   github com nkadel git24-srpm   Feel free to access and fork those if you want packages distinguished from the standard system packages  much as  samba  and  samba4  packages are differentiated

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Here s my method to install git on centos 6   sudo yum groupinstall  Development Tools  sudo yum install zlib-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker asciidoc xmlto openssl-devel curl-devel sudo yum install wget cd   wget -O git zip https   github com git git archive v2 7 2 zip unzip git zip cd git-2 7 2 make configure   configure --prefix  usr local make all doc sudo make install install-doc install-html

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Rackspace maintains the ius repository  which contains a reasonably up-to-date git  but the stock git has to first be removed  CentOS 6 or 7 instructions  run as root or with sudo     retrieve and check CENTOS MAIN VERSION  6 or 7   CENTOS MAIN VERSION   cat  etc centos-release   awk -F  release        print  2     awk -F       print  1    echo  CENTOS MAIN VERSION   output should be  quot 6 quot  or  quot 7 quot     Install IUS Repo and Epel-Release  yum install -y https   repo ius io ius-release-el  CENTOS MAIN VERSION  rpm yum install -y epel-release     re-install git  yum erase -y git  yum install -y git-core    check version  git --version   output  git version 2 24 3  Note  git-all instead of git-core often installs an old version  Try e g  git224-all instead  The script is tested on a CentOS 7 docker image  7e6257c9f8d8  and on a CentOS 6 docker image  d0957ffdf8a2

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