Git installing tutorials

The Best one is to do from source.
http://www.how-to-linux.com/2009/01/install-git-161-on-centos-52/

January 16th, 2009

Install the dependencies

yum install gettext-devel expat-devel curl-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel

Get the git source code

wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.1.tar.gz

untar the git source code

tar xvfz git-1.6.1.tar.gz

Install

cd git-1.6.1.tar.gz

make prefix=/usr/local all

make prefix=/usr/local install