Git has released 1.9.4 version on May 30, 2014. 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 know more about Git 1.9.4 read Git release notes.
This article will guide you to install Git 1.9.4 on CentOS/RHEL 6 Systems using source code. To learn about Git, access Git console on your browser and know about its uses.
Step 1: Install Required Packages
Firstly we need to make sure that we have installed required packages on your system. Use following command to install required packages before compiling Git source.
# yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
Step 2: Download and Compile Git Source
Download git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 1.9.4.
# cd /usr/src # wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.9.4.tar.gz # tar xzf git-1.9.4.tar.gz
After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use following command to compile source code.
# cd git-1.9.4 # make prefix=/usr/local/git all # make prefix=/usr/local/git install # echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git /bin" >> /etc/bashrc # source /etc/bashrc
Step 3. Check Git Version
One completion of above steps, you have successfully install Git in your system. Let use following command to check git version
# git --version git version 1.9.4
Hi, I tried to install git 1.9.1 version according to the steps from above on CentOs 6 32bit on virtualBox. At the end when I tried to run git –version I got error message: – bash: command git not found. I tried the last two commands with sudo command, but nothing change.
echo “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin” >> /etc/bashrc
source /etc/bashrc
I don’t know what ‘source’ command is doing, and I don’t know why I don’t get the wrong result at the end. On the previous steps, I don’t get any visible error(s).
wonderful, thanks for the article.
Hi, I followed your instructions but the version of git i get is 1.7.3.4… I am using a redHat 6.6.
Great article, u save me lot of time, on aruba cloud centos !! Yum get me git_1.7.1 very old !!! with this article I installed git_2.1.1 😉 thanks
@Jason
first read, then understand, then write
“#echo “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin” >> /etc/bashrc” gives:
“bash: /etc/bashrc: Permission denied”
sudo before #echo…. superuser have all permissions ! 😉
Thanks for this post!!!. Works like a charm.
Thanks for the tutorial.
Can you please post instructions on how to upgrade existing git as well. I have git 1.7.1 installed in centos 6.5 (/usr/bin/git). I want to replace that version with 1.9.0
Thanks
Vaidya, I had a similar issue.
I found that simply running “yum remove git” took the factory fitted 1.7.1 off the system.
After that when I ran “git –version” it automatically showed version 1.9.0
Thanks for the tutorial.
As my environment was very clean, I was missing 2 dependencies required for the compilation on cent os 6.5.
You can add them in step 1: gcc and perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
Thanks Nikolay.
We have updated article accordingly.