Install Git 2.9.5 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6

Step 1 — Install Required Packages

Before installing Git from source code, make sure you have already installed required packages on your system. If not use following command to install required packages.

yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel

yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Step 2 — Download and Install Git

Download latest Git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2.9.5.

cd /usr/src

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.5.tar.gz

tar xzf git-2.9.5.tar.gz

After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use following command to compile source code.

cd git-2.9.5
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 Git Version

After completing above installation steps. you have successfully install Git on your system. Let’s use following command to check git version.

git --version

git version 2.9.5