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Update git from 1.8.3.1 to 2.22.0 #21668

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git clone [https://github.com/git/git](https://github.com/git/git) will get you the source code for Git, but it won’t be anything that you can execute on your machine. You would have to build Git from source in order for that to happen.

From what I understand, CentOS uses the yum package manager. So you may want to check the instructions for how to use yum to upgrade the software installed on your CentOS machine.

And you can check the Git release notes for the things that have changed between v1.8.3.1 (released ~6 years ago) and v2.22.0. For the most part, you probably won’t notice many large differences. Some commands have improved. Some performance has been improved. But the latest vers…

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