Why my git is not updating from 1.7.1 to 1.9.4

Question

I am on REDHAT 6. I want to update my git, I tried multiple ways.

1st Method

$yum update git. I got : No Packages marked for Update.

2nd Method

$ wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.8.3.4.tar.gz
$ wget -O git-manpages-1.8.3.4.tar.gz http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/detail?name=git-manpages-1.8.3.4.tar.gz&can=2&q=

Next, install all required libraries before building GIT:

$ sudo yum install zlib-devel perl-CPAN gettext

Now let’s untar and build and install GIT in the /usr directory:

$ tar xvfz git-1.8.3.4.tar.gz
$ cd git-1.8.3.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make prefix=/usr install
$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.4

Got This error.

[qaserver@qaserver3 ~]$ cd git-1.8.3.4
[qaserver@qaserver3 git-1.8.3.4]$ ./configure
configure: Setting lib to 'lib' (the default)
configure: Will try -pthread then -lpthread to enable POSIX Threads.
configure: CHECKS for site configuration
configure: CHECKS for programs
checking for cc... no
checking for gcc... no
configure: error: in `/home/qaserver/git-1.8.3.4':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details

3rd Method

Install Required Packages

 # yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Download and Compile Git Source

# cd /usr/src
# wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.9.4.tar.gz
# tar xzf git-1.9.4.tar.gz

After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use following command to compile source code

# cd git-1.9.4
# make prefix=/usr/local/git all
# make prefix=/usr/local/git install
# echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin" >> /etc/bashrc
# source /etc/bashrc

All the above command executed successfully without any error, but when i

$ git --version or $ git version

Still I m getting.

git version 1.7.1

I have gone mad, What is wrong with this any body have idea???

Answer 1

For RedHat or CentOS, method 3 is the right way to go, just need to remove the pre-existing git before:

yum remove git

After that, your new git will work as expected.

See Install git on on CentOS/Redhat 7/6,5 and Fedora 22/21.

I hope this helps.