Why not just build the latest version from source? That works well on a single developer workstation if you don’t mind staying abreast of each new Git release on your own, and doing a bit of work to build them. You can use it too! Our current packaged version as of today is the latest Git, version 2.34.1, which was released on 24 November 2021. To relieve the pain of aging software, we here at End Point Dev package up newer Git versions for RHEL 7 as needed for ourselves and our clients. Using a newer version will likely have some differences, but for software primarily used interactively by humans who can adapt to change, this is often worth the tradeoff of more features vs. They only want to release updates that are entirely compatible, mostly for bugfixes and security updates. The makers of CentOS/RHEL have good reasons to stick with versions they shipped with for the lifetime of the operating system: compatibility, stability, predictability. There have been 2 major, 36 minor, and 216 patch releases of Git in the 8½ years between then and the current version 2.34.1! We have been using and advocating Git since 2007 - see our blog posts about Git for a variety of helpful articles.ĬentOS/RHEL 7 includes Git version 1.8.3, which was released in May 2013. SaaS code hosting providers GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and others are built around it. IDEs such as VS Code and IntelliJ idea integrate with it. It is open source and free software and is used by most public and many internal software projects, and also by solo developers. It popularized the distributed model of tracking changes to source code files and greatly simplified collaboration by multiple developers.

Git is by far the most-used version control system in the world.

One component that is far enough outdated to cause serious annoyance is Git.

RHEL/CentOS 7 is starting to feel a somewhat dated, but it still has over 2½ years before it reaches the end of its support lifetime that Red Hat has set for the end of June 2024.

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