Build git from source code on CentOS 7

build-git.md

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-2.18.0.tar.gz
tar xf git-2.18.0.tar.gz
cd git-2.18.0/

2) Install the dependencies

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

3) Configure

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

4) Compile

make all

5) Install

make install

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Find out what the latest version of git is at https://git-scm.com/, say 2.40.0. Replace 2.31.1 in the first line with 2.40.0.
Start a terminal application. (On a mac, Lauchpad -> Terminal)
Copy, paste, and enter all these commands in the terminal, one after another. ( The make command will take many minutes.)
"sudo make install" will put the compiled program in directory /usr/local/bin.
You can then run the git command from the terminal.