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Verify that you now have the latest version of git using git -version Now install the latest version of git sudo yum update gitĥ. Add their repo to yum using the following line: sudo yum install Ĥ. Pub 4096R/703DF089 End Point RPM (RPM Signing Key) # rpm -qi gpg-pubkey-703df089 | gpg -with-fingerprint Before add Endpoint Dev repo, verify their GPG key first using # cd /tmp Verify your existing git version using, which should no doubt show you some version of 1.8.xĢ.However, if you just want the tldr version, here are the steps: You can read all about it in their excellent article on this topic. If you remember I mentioned there are a few helpful teams out there that package git for the rest of us CentOs 7 users? Well there is another team End Point Dev who seem to provide another way to do the same. When CentOs complains about perl related issues, always tread carefully since perl is a key part of yum. We couldn’t figure out what actually has changed, but one thing we learnt over the years, is this However, quite recently we spotted they migrated their version of git to 2.3.6, which is the latest release. What breaks with git 2.3.6 using Inline with Upstream Stable repo? Up until recently, we used to find git releases from the repo by Inline with Upstream Stable quite stable. There are a few helpul teams in the CentOs community, who usually package up neweer versions of git for use by the rest of us. So whats the rub, well if you want to now install a better or more updated version of git on CentOs, you gotta do it yourself. So by default all CentOs 7 servers install git version 1.8!! Yes, that is an ancient version about 10 years old (release date ). For a while most of us in the CentOs 7 world have traded stability vs latest and greatest.

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