How to Install Git 2.8.1 on CentOS Linux Systems

Git has released 2.8.1 version on Apr 03, 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 2.8.1 read Git release notes. If you are using a Git repository for your development, then you must required a git client on your system and you need to install git client on your workstation system.

This tutorial will help you to install git core 2.8.1 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 operating systems using 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 following command to install required packages.

# yum -y install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel
# yum -y 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 2.8.1.

# cd /usr/src
# wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.8.1.tar.gz
# tar xzf git-2.8.1.tar.gz

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

# cd git-2.8.1
# 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 2.8.1