Install latest git on CentOS 6/7

Assuming you have sudo/root permission.

 

Try rpmforge-extras first.

yum --disablerepo=base,updates --enablerepo=rpmforge-extras install git

 

If you did not have rpmforge-extras, try manual installation.

yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
wget --no-check-certificate https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.12.2.tar.gz

# you can refer to https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ to see what is the latest version.

tar -xzvf git-2.12.2.tar.gz
cd git-2.12.2
make
sudo make install

 

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21820715/how-to-install-latest-version-of-git-on-centos-6-x-7-x