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

or super manual method

download git source from git hub and then

make prefix=/usr/local all
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-git-on-ubuntu-14-04