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

Just follow below commands to update latest version of git

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