Re: Trying to update GIT in Ubuntu 18.04

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2020, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmu3pq5m5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAO-dU=fQZ6YVk1rWw_Tc8YT-i_zH7-hw3GATXmf7hwaqqC3j4Q@mail.gmail.com>

Matthew Glassman <matthewglassman78@gmail.com> writes:

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> My git version is listed as 2.17.1.  If I try to just do sudo apt
> install git..It will tell me I have the latest version and this is
> after running apt update.  I can not get the PPA to work because there
> is no GPG Key to input and thus Ubuntu will automatically keep it from
> use due to insecurity.  Can you please advise me on how to best update
> GIT to the current stable version please.

Unless installing from the source is an option, you are at the mercy of your distro packagers.

But it shouldn't be hard if you are on a mainstream platforms (any recent Linux certainly qualifies) to build and install from the source.

  https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/INSTALL

Using "make --prefix=$HOME/gitstuff install install-doc" and adding "$HOME/gitstuff/bin" early in the $PATH would let you use the one that you built, without uninstalling what came from the distro (typically in /usr/bin).