Git version control system for Ubuntu Linux. How to install Git on Ubuntu 16.04, via command line. Terminal commands to install Git with Apt or install Git from Source.
Git 2.10
Git 2.10 has been released with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features of Git 2.10:
- Progress reporting for pushes When you run git push, Git is completely silent and the network connection looks completely idle during this phase. Git 2.10 adds progress reports for these post-receive operations, to keep you informed and to make sure the network knows work is still going on.
- Signature verification improvements Git 2.10 adds a new configuration option, log.showSignature, to verify signatures for every invocation of git log. The default output format for signature verification has also been changed to show 64-bit GPG key-ids, even when using older versions of GPG (64-bit ids are already the default on newer versions).
- More Color Attributes Git 2.10 comes with a few new options: its color code now understands italic and strikethrough attributes. In addition, the %C(auto) placeholder has been fixed, color support now works out of the box on FreeBSD, and the default colors for HEAD decorations have been tweaked to increase visibility.
Other changes are:
- The smart-http protocol will now grow its negotiation windows more aggressively, which should result in fewer round-trips when fetching a large repository over HTTP.
- submodule update and clone –recursive have learned to retry a single cloning failure for each submodule, to make ephemeral server and network failures less annoying.
- Manpages in the terminal will now have literal phrases shown in bold (these are generally shown in a fixed-space typewriter font in the HTML pages, but were not decorated at all in the terminal).
- Git’s internal date-formatting code can now correctly show dates past the year 2100. Phew, fixed with only 84 years to spare.
- Similarly, git archive can now generate tarfiles with POSIX extensions to handle files larger than 8GB, and timestamps later than the year 2242 (8 giga-seconds since 1970).
Install GIT
Ubuntu users can install Git via PPA repository. Run the following commands in Terminal to install Git on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext unzip
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
Once installed, check GIT version using the following command.
git --version
More Info:
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/git.html
https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.10.0/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt