Git is a free and open source distributed version control system . Git 2.9.3 comes with the large number of updates verses previous release 2.8. It is designed to handle a small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Git on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
Install Git on Ubuntu 16.04
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Git.
Ubuntu 16.04 comes with Git 2.7.x, which is a little old now. As versions 2.9 are not part of the Ubuntu repositories, you need to add the git-core personal package archive. Run the following commands in Terminal to install Git 2.9.3 on Ubuntu, via PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git
To check current version installed of Git use following command:
[root@wpcademy ~]# git --version git version 2.8.1
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Git. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Git in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Git web site.