Default repository often install old version of software. To get the latest version, best way is, install it from the source.

Here I am going to present how to install Git core with command line. I am going to use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, as the environment.

Steps:

1. First, update the repository:
sudo apt-get update

2. Install some required dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev build-essential

3. Get the source file:

wget https://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.8.1.1.tar.gz

4. Extract it
tar -zxf git-1.8.1.1.tar.gz
cd git-1.8.1.1

5. Install it for all users:
make prefix=/usr/local all
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

6. If you need to update Git in the future, you can use Git itself to do it.

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

7. Configure Git:

sudo nano ~/.gitconfig

git config --global user.name "NewUser"
git config --global user.email newuser@example.com

8. You can see all of your settings with this command:
git config --list

You can change the command syntax for installing Git to other Linux distro such as CentOS or Fedora.
Hope this will help you to start the Git journey.

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