Re: git versions

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 22, 2016, 22:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20160122223753.GB15635@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160122T180812-568@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 05:15:23PM +0000, Ashish Yadav wrote:

> I am using git v1.7.12.4 w CentOS 6.5. Can I upgrade 1.7.1-3 to 2.7?

Probably. :)

I don't know much about what has been packaged for CentOS 6.5, but you can certainly build the latest version of git from source. You can get tarballs at:

  https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

Or you can just clone the git repository at:

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

If you are asking "can I upgrade to v2.7 and still use my existing repositories?", then the answer is yes, everything should continue to work, and you can fetch and push between servers running arbitrary git versions.

You may want to look at the release notes in Documentation/RelNotes, as some of the defaults have changed (especially around the v2.0 release).

-Peff