Installing Latest version of git in ubuntu

Question

My Current git version 1.7.9.5...

I need to upgrade to at least git 1.7.10 to have git clone command to work properly

I tried sudo add-apt

Answer 1

The Ubuntu git maintainers team has a PPA just for that

ppa:git-core/ppa

Just do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

If add-apt-repository command is not found, install it first with

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties