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Installs git 1.7.10 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) using packages from the upcoming 12.10 (Quantal) release. Should work for i386 and amd64.
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# Installs git 1.7.10 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) using packages from
# the upcoming 12.10 (Quantal) release. Should work for i386 and amd64.
#
# Adapted from http://pastebin.com/TXeMw1CY
#
HOST_ARCH=`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU`
wget http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_${HOST_ARCH}.deb \
http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git-man_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb \
http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/gitk_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i git-man_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb git_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_${HOST_ARCH}.deb gitk_1.7.10.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb
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m14t commented Sep 16, 2013

Note that this requires dpkg-architecture which can be installed by sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev.

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