Install Git 1.7 on CentOS 5

Submitted by Alexander J Sluiter on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 23:10

Here's a quick tutorial on how to compile and install Git 1.7 on CentOS 5. You'll need a few dependencies before you start.

yum install zlib-devel openssl-devel perl cpio expat-devel gettext-devel curl-devel gcc


Git

cd /usr/local/src

wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.3.2.tar.bz2

tar xvf git*.*

cd git*

make prefix=/usr/local all

make prefix=/usr/local install

git --version

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 01:02.

Thanks

Thanks for the guide, although its worth noting that the sources have now moved to google code & github:

http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/detail?name=git-1.7.7.3.tar.gz