Ubuntu - Update Git

OS: Ubuntu 12.04

To update your git to the leatest version (2.0.0) without rebuilding, you can use the Launchpad PPA repository (https://launchpad.net/). Lunchpad is a software collcaboration platform that provides:

• Bug tracking
• Code hosting using Bazaar
• Code reviews
• Ubuntu package building and hosting
• Translations
• Mailing lists
• Answer tracking and FAQs
• Specification tracking

Lunchpad has the most current stable version of Git for Ubuntu.

To add Lunchpad git ppa:

# git --version
git version 1.7.9.5
# add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
# apt-get update
# apt-get install git
# git --version
git version 2.0.0

Of course you can build the newest version:

# Download git-core from https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
# tar -zxf git-1.9.0.tar.gz
# cd git-1.9.0
# make prefix=/usr/local all
# sudo make prefix=/usr/local install