This tutorial will help you to install git 2.9.5 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 and Fedora 26/25/24 operating systems using the source code.
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 the following command to install required packages.
# yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel
# yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
Step 2 – Download and Install Git 2.9.5(One of the latest)
Download latest Git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2.14.0.
# cd /opt
# yum install wget
# wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.5.tar.gz
# tar xzf git-2.9.5.tar.gz
After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use the following command to compile the source code.
# cd git-2.9.5
# 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 the system environment. So edit /etc/bashrc file and add below content to it
export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
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 2.9.5
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Installing Git from source is sometimes necessary to obtain newer features, but it also introduces a maintenance responsibility that package-managed installations largely avoid. In production environments, teams should consider how future Git upgrades, security CVEs, and rollback procedures will be handled, especially since binaries installed under
/usr/localare invisible to yum/dnf patching workflows. A more sustainable approach is often to build a versioned RPM internally and distribute it through a managed repository, allowing configuration management tools to track, audit, and upgrade Git consistently across fleets. It would also be valuable to discuss validating the source tarball signatures and testing compatibility with existing hooks, CI runners, and developer tooling before promoting a custom-built Git version into shared environments.