Installation tutorial for the latest version of CentOS git

CentOS6.5 comes with version 1.7.1 of git

Uninstall the built-in git

# yum remove git

Download the latest version of git

# wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.9.2.tar.gz

Unpack the

# tar zxvf v2.9.2.tar.gz
# cd git-2.9.2

Compile the installation

# make configure
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/git --with-iconv=/usr/local/libiconv
# make all doc
# sudo make install install-doc install-html

Modify environment variables

# sudo vim /etc/profile

Add in the last line

export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH

Save for immediate effect

# source /etc/profile

Check to see if the installation was successful

#git --version

Modify the git pointing in pycharm

File- > Settings- > Version Control- > Git- > Path to Git executable:

Select/usr local/git/bin/git