Installing Latest version of git in ubuntu

My Current git version 1.7.9.5...

I need to upgrade to at least git 1.7.10 to have git clone command to work properly

I tried sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa for upgrading but resulted in this :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 125, in <module>
    ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 80, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
    curl.perform()
pycurl.error: (7, "couldn't connect to host")

What am I supposed to do to get the latest git installed (to upgrade)?

Solution 1:

The Ubuntu git maintainers team has a PPA just for that

ppa:git-core/ppa

Just do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

If add-apt-repository command is not found, install it first with

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties

Solution 2:

The question was: "What to do when sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa command fails".

I had the same issue in a VM behind a proxy. I resolved it with the following two steps:

1. Set up proxy environment variables

   export http_proxy=http://<user>:<pwd>@<proxy_url>:<port_number>
   export https_proxy=http://<user>:<pwd>@<proxy_url>:<port_number>
   

2. Run the add-apt-repository command again as sudo with the -E option that preserves the user environment:

   sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa