Installing latest version of git on Centos

The Centos repo for git is waaay out of date. Here's how to download an up to date version.

sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y groupinstall development
sudo yum -y install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X wget
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi

obtain the URL of the version of git that you want to use from https://github.com/git/git/releases
wget <url of git release> -O git.tar.gz
tar -xvf git.tar.gz
cd git*
make all doc prefix=/usr && sudo make install install-doc installhtml install-man prefix=/usr

then run git --version to check if you are now on the one you want.