![]() ![]() There are some package dependencies that you have to install manually in order to continue with the installation so fire up a terminal on CentOS 7 and run the following commands. Installing Git from source will allow us to get the latest version where latest features are included but the disadvantage of this method is that once the installation is finished the yum package manager which is being used on CentOS systems can not be used to update on this piece of software. Installing Git – Compiling from sourceĬompiling and installing software from source is not very hard, but for sure it requires some knowledge and I highly recommend to follow each instruction presented on this tutorial very carefully especially if you have not done this before. Make sure you have CentOS 7 installed on your machine as well as an account with root privileges as it is needed to install software on your system. According to wikipedia there are many languages being used to develop this version control system such as Perl, Bash, C and Tcl.īefore continuing with the installation of Git on GentOS version 7 I have to mention that it Git supports the main operating systems such as Linux, POSIX, Windows and OS X. Linus Torvalds the author who started the development of Git decided to release it for free under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. Unlike client-server systems software developers are independent of network access or a central server as every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository. Git is the most widely used version control system for software development which was initially released nine years ago on 7 April 2005 with the main primary goal of maintaining a large distributed development project. If you have ever used sites like Github or pushed code on Bitbucket to show it to your friends then you probably know what git is, at least it is for sure you have an idea about it. I use it all the time so thought to write a useful tutorial for unixmen readers on how to install git on CentOS 7. Git is a very useful version control tool in the today’s software development industry. ![]()
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