Git a free and opensource distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed and e...
Git a free and opensource distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed and efficiency.It is a client for the Popular github.
In this tutorial I will show you how to install git 2.7.1 On Ubuntu 15.10 / 15.04 / 14.04 LTS and LinuxMint.
The Latest version of GIT is 2.7.1 which is a stable version and it is released days ago
Installation steps
Method 1 : via ppaMethod 2 : via tar file
Method 1
Step 1: Add the Official PPA provided by GITsudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppaStep 2: Update the Repository
sudo apt-get updateStep 3: Install GIT 2.7.1
sudo apt-get install git
Method 2
Download the tar file from the official site or use wgetwget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.7.1.tar.gzStep 2:Extract the package and configure it
tar -xvzf git-2.7.1.tar.gz
./configurestep 3: Compile the Git
make && make installNote : if you encountered any error while using the make command install the below package and once again compile
apt-get install libssl-devCheck the version 2.7.1 installed or not
# git --version
git version 2.7.1
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