How to Install Git 2.8.11 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 & Fedora 25/24

Git has released 2.8.11 version on Nov 24, 2016. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system. It is designed to handle a small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. To read more details and changes about Git 2.8.11 read Git release notes. If you are using a Git repository for your development, then you must require a git client on your system and you need to install git client on your workstation system.
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This tutorial will help you to install git-core 2.8.11 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 operating systems using the source code. For beginners visit Git console on your browser and learn Git uses and command line tips.

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 the 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 2.8.11.
# cd /usr/src # wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.8.11.tar.gz # tar xzf git-2.8.11.tar.gz
After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use the following command to compile the source code.
# cd git-2.8.11 # make prefix=/usr/local/git all # make prefix=/usr/local/git install

Step 3 – Setup Environment

After installation of git client. Now you must need to set binary in system environment. So edit /etc/bashrc file and add below content to it
 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin
Now execute below command to reload configuration in current environment.
# source /etc/bashrc
After completing above steps. Let’s use following command to check current git version.
# git --version  git version 2.8.11

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