How to Install Git and Setup Git Account in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora ========= For newbies, Git is a free and open source, fast and distributed version control system (VCS), which by design is based on speed, efficient performance and data integrity to support small-scale to extensive software development projects. Git is a software repository that allows you to keep a track of your software changes, revert to previous version and create another versions of files and directories. Git is written in C, with a mix of Perl and a variety of shell scripts, it’s primarily intended to run on the Linux kernel and has a number of remarkable features as listed below: 1. Easy to learn 2. It is fast and most of its operations are carried out locally, in addition, this offers it a tremendous speed on centralized systems that need to communicate with remote servers. 3. Highly efficient 4. Supports data integrity checks 5. Enables cheap local branching 6. Offers a convenient staging area 7. It also maintains multiple work-flows together with many others In this how-to guide, we shall move through the necessary steps of installing Git on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and Fedora 20-24 Linux distributions along with how to configure Git so that you can start participating right away.. ### Install Git Using Yum We shall install Git from the system default repositories, and make sure that your system is up-to-date with the latest version of packages by running the [YUM package manager][8] update command below: ``` # yum update ``` Next, install Git by typing the following command: ``` # yum install git ``` After git successfully installed, you can issue the following command to display the version of Git installed: ``` # git --version ``` [![Check Git Installed Version](http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Check-Git-Version.png)][7] Check Git Installed Version Important: Installing Git from default repositories will give you older version. If you looking to have a most recent version of Git, consider compiling from source using following instructions. ### Install Git from Source Before you begin, first you need to install required software dependencies from the default repositories, along with the utilities that needed to build a binary from source: ``` # yum groupinstall "Development Tools" # yum install gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-CPAN perl-devel zlib-devel ``` After you have installed required software dependencies, go to the official [Git release page][6] and grab the latest version and compile it from source using following series of command: ``` # wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.10.1.tar.gz -O git.tar.gz # tar -zxf git.tar.gz # cd git-2.10.1/ # make configure # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local # make install # git --version ``` [![Check Installed Git Version](http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Check-Git-Source-Version.png)][5] Check Installed Git Version **Suggested Read:** [11 Best Git Clients and Git Repository Viewers for Linux][4] ### Set Up Git Account in Linux In this section, we shall cover how to set up a Git account with correct user information such as name and email address to avoid any commit errors, and the `git config` command is used to do that. Important: Make sure to replace username with the actual name for the Git user to be created and used on your system. You can start by creating a Git user with the [useradd command][3] as below, where the `-m` flag used to create the user’s home directory under `/home` and `-s` specifies the user’s default shell. ``` # useradd -m -s /bin/bash username # passwd username ``` Now, add the new user to the wheel group to enable the account to use the `sudo` command: ``` # usermod username -aG wheel ``` [![Create Git User Account](http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Create-Git-User-Account.png)][2] Create Git User Account Then configure Git with the new user as follows: ``` # su username $ sudo git config --global user.name "Your Name" $ sudo git config --global user.email "you@example.com" ``` Now verify Git configuration using following command. ``` $ sudo git config --list ``` If there are no errors with the configurations, you should be able to view an output with the following details: ``` user.name=username user.email= username@some-domian.com ``` [![Setup Git Account in Linux](http://www.tecmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Setup-Git-Account.png)][1] >Setup Git Account in Linux ##### Conclusion In this simple tutorial, we have looked at how to install Git on your Linux system as well as configuring it. 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