How can git be installed on CENTOS 5.5?

Question

How can I install git on CENTOS 5.5 machine? I tried to install it from yum but got following msg.

root@host [~]# sudo yum install git
Loaded plugins: fastes         


        

Answer 1

For installing git

1. install last epel-release

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

1. Install git from repository

yum install git