Upgrading git from the source repository in Ubuntu

by

2.0.2 has been uploaded 3 days ago in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

But if this isn’t what you want, and you have clone the git repo, then

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev bzip2
cd /path/to/local/clone/of/git
./configure
make
sudo make install

More Related Contents:

  1. How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?
  2. How do you clone a Git repository into a specific folder?
  3. How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository?
  4. Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repo
  5. What’s the -practical- difference between a Bare and non-Bare repository?
  6. How to move some files from one git repo to another (not a clone), preserving history
  7. Moving Git repository content to another repository preserving history
  8. How do I make a Git commit in the past?
  9. Merge changes from remote github repository to your local repository
  10. Split large Git repository into many smaller ones
  11. Can I arrange repositories into folders on Github?
  12. Git push results in fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: This
  13. Repository size limits for GitHub.com
  14. How do I rename a repository on GitHub?
  15. Change old commit message using `git rebase`
  16. How to fix git error: RPC failed; curl 56 GnuTLS
  17. How to rebase one Git repository onto another one?
  18. GitHub changes repository to the wrong language
  19. Git: Merge a Remote branch locally
  20. Git: add vs push vs commit
  21. Connecting one Github repository to several Aptana projects
  22. Transfer git repositories from GitLab to GitHub – can we, how to and pitfalls (if any)?
  23. Can a project have multiple origins?
  24. ! [remote rejected] errors after mirroring a git repository
  25. What is git’s “filemode”?
  26. How to reduce git repo size on Bitbucket?
  27. git push to remote repository “Could not read from remote repository”
  28. Git clone repository error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200
  29. How to convert a Git repo to a submodule, which is nested in another (parent) Git repo?
  30. Difference between Git and Nexus?

Leave a Comment