How to install the latest version of GIT on Centos 6.x?

To install the current stable version of git just launch simple command:


yum install git

Probably you could compile even newer version of git from the source. However, the purpose of this tutorial is to show how to install the latest version of git available in the repositories.

Install RPMforge repository following instructions on http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-f0...


wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm


If you previously installed RPMforge and now see conflict between el5 and el6 versions then do:


rpm -e rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm
rm -rf rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm


Now let's clean and update yum database and check if we previously installed git and if did then to get rid of it:


yum clean all
yum update
git --version
yum remove git


Now go to /etc/yum.repos.d and temporarily disable "base" and temporarily enable "rpmforge-extras" repository:


cd /etc/yum.repos.d
nano CentOS-Base.repo
nano rpmforge.repo


Now, update yum database and see what kind of git version rpmforge-extras repository offers. Ignore the error about "Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-2.052-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge-extras)":

yum update
yum provides git

You will see quite an extensive list:


yum provides git
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* extras: mirror.stanford.edu
* rpmforge: mirror.hmc.edu
* rpmforge-extras: mirror.hmc.edu
* updates: centos.sonn.com
92 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
git-1.7.6-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.8.2-2.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.11.1-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.6.4-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.7.4-2.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.10.1-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.10-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.6.1-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.3.4-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.11.3-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.10.4-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.9.6-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : rpmforge-extras
Matched from:

git-1.7.11.3-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 : Git core and tools
Repo : installed
Matched from:
Other : Provides-match: git

Copy the exact name of needed package, for example install git-1.7.11.3-1.el6.rfx.x86_64, and run:

yum install git-1.7.11.3-1.el6.rfx.x86_64
git --version

Reverse the repositories by enabling Base and disabling rpmforge-extras. You are done!