Install Git 2.19 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint / Debian and CentOS

Git a free and open source released a new version 2.19, it is a 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 2.19 On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 16.04, LinuxMint and CentOS

The Latest version of GIT is 2.19 which is a stable version and it is released on 10th September 2018

What's New in Git 2.19?

• The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C.
• git worktree" command learned "--quiet" option to make it less verbose
• Many more strings are prepared for l10n.
• The userdiff pattern for .php has been updated.
• Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3.
• git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths added with intent-to-add bit the command shows the full contents of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new files and now shown as new by default.

For complete changelog refer this link

Installation steps

• Method 1: via ppa
• Method 2: via tar file

Method 1: Install Git 2.19 on ubuntu / LinuMint Via PPA

Step 1: Add the Official PPA provided by GIT

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

Step 2: Update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install GIT 2.19

sudo apt-get install git

Method 2: Install Git 2.19 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS Via source file

Step 1: Download the tar file from the official site or use wget

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.19.0.tar.gz

Step 2: Extract the package and configure it

tar -xvf git-2.19.0.tar.gz

./configure

Step 3: Compile the git

make && make install

Note: if you encounter any error while using the make command install the below package and once again compile

For Debian distributions

apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev

For CentOS

yum install openssl-devel curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel zlib-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Check the version installed or not

git --version