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Build git from source code on CentOS 7

Build git from source code

1) Go to https://git-scm.com/ and check out the latest version of Git

Currently, the latest version is 2.18.0. Download and extract it and go to the folder of the source code:

wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.20.5.tar.gz
tar xf git-2.20.5.tar.gz
cd git-2.20.5/

2) Install the dependencies

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel perl-CPAN perl-devel zlib-devel

3) Configure

make configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

4) Compile

make all

5) Install

make install
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