How to install GIT on LINUX

it was true in 2008 and it is still true in 2010. While "msysgit" provides good Windows port of Git I preferred to experience the real one.
Naturally, there are a number of ways to install Git on Linux, Ubuntu 10.04 in my case.

$which git $sudo apt-get install git-core $which git /usr/bin/git $git --version git version 1.7.0.4

This is the easiest way, of course, but it brings us an outdated version of Git. Latest Git version is "1.7.2.3", let’s download it from git-scm.com (kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/) and install manually.

$wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.2.3.tar.gz $tar -xvf git-1.7.2.3.tar.gz $cd git-1.7.2.3/ $sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev $make prefix=/usr/local all $sudo make prefix=/usr/local install $which git /usr/local/bin/git $git --version git version 1.7.2.3

Much better! We now have the latest Git version installed. Can it be better?
Oh yes ..

$git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git $cd git $git tag ... v1.7.2.3 v1.7.3-rc0 v1.7.3-rc1 v1.7.3-rc2 $git checkout v1.7.3-rc2 $make prefix=/usr/local all $sudo make prefix=/usr/local install $which git /usr/local/bin/git $git --version git version 1.7.3.rc2

Now, we can periodically take a look at http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tags and run "git fetch" to get updates committed by Git developers.

$git fetch ... From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git    f17c1de..ac752fa  html       -> origin/html    525f768..4693a7d  man        -> origin/man    14d8729..87b5054  master     -> origin/master    4a2aa5e..7bba3dd  next       -> origin/next  + ce883eb...31195da pu         -> origin/pu  (forced update)    46b1f9b..5fba457  todo       -> origin/todo  * [new tag]         v1.7.3     -> v1.7.3   $git checkout v1.7.3 $make prefix=/usr/local all $sudo make prefix=/usr/local install $git --version git version 1.7.3

Ahh, living on the bleeding edge :)