Upgrade git on Centos
Most of the Linux distros comes with git version 1.6/1.7 .If you want to upgrade it , you need to compile it from source
Install dependencies
| 1 | yum install curl–devel expat–devel gettext–devel openssl–devel zlib–devel |
Now you can download latest version of git from github
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | git clone https://github.com/git/git.git cd git make configure ./configure make all make install |
Now check git version using
| 1 2 | git version git version 2.10.1.502.g6598894 |