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

To install or update Git in the latest version of Ubuntu, simply type following command in terminal and hit enter (return).

sudo apt-get install git

For checking Git version.

git --version