Updating GIT to the latest version in Ubuntu - droboports/droboports.github.io GitHub Wiki

• Make sure add-apt-repository is installed
• Add the ppa:git-core/ppa repository (see https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa)
• Update and install the latest version of git.

Command summary:

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