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 question was: "What to do when sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa command fails".

I had the same issue in a VM behind a proxy. I resolved it with the following two steps:

1. Set up proxy environment variables

   export http_proxy=http://:@:
   export https_proxy=http://:@:
   

2. Run the add-apt-repository command again as sudo with the -E option that preserves the user environment:

   sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa