Last night I was working on a new ubuntu 9.04 server on ec2 (it was ami-0d729464 from http://alestic.com if you’re interested). Installing git via aptitude would have given me an older version so here’s what I did.
$ sudo apt-get build-dep git-core git-doc libssl-dev $ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz $ tar -xzf git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz $ cd git-1.6.3.3/ $ ./configure $ make all doc $ sudo make install install-doc $ git --version git version 1.6.3.3 |