How to install Git 2.0.4 in CentOS

Step 1: install the required package

First, make sure that the required packages are installed on your system. Run the following command to install the required package before compiling the Git source code!

# Yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel
 
# Yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Step 2: Download and compile Git source code

# 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

# 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">/etc/bashrc
 
# Source/etc/bashrc

Step 3: Check the Git version

# Git -- version
 
Git version 2.0.4