I’ve been hearing good things about git lately, with many projects which used to use subversion converting to it, so I’ve decided to try it out myself. RPMForge only has version 1.5, so like the other software I’ve been using, I’ve converted Fedora 11′s rpm to CentOS and put it in the Webtatic repository.
Update 2010-02-14 – Updated Git 1.6.6 to 1.7.0
Update 2010-04-05 – Updated to 1.7.0.4, included all dependencies in the repository to remove any dependencies on other repositories
If you haven’t set up the Webtatic repository in yum, then add it in the command-line as following:
rpm -ivh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/`uname -i`/webtatic-release-5-1.noarch.rpm
Now install git:
yum install --enablerepo=webtatic git-all
Thanks for the repo really appreciate having an up to date version of git available for easy installation on CentOS.
Thanks a lot for this repository. I used it a couple of times.
Thanks a lot for this, saved me a ton of hassle
Keep up the good work ! It’s really sweet to find a recent version of git for CentOS !
Hi! Thanks for that repo. When you have time, do you mind adding gitosis as well. I currently don’t see it available in your repo and I use it a lot. Thanks in advance
I’d recommend you install the EPEL repository, which contains this package. Whilst I also use gitosis (the one in EPEL), I might not be able to update it as frequently as I do git, so you’re better getting updates from them.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
I’m considering partially mirroring some packages, which could include it, as well as subversion 1.6 from rpmforge, but will need to sort out a way of automatically checking for updates.
Great work, thanks a million for this.
Thanx for the Git update.
After the install I get:
> Importing GPG key …. “Andrew Thompson ” from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-webtatic-andy
Is this ok [y/N]?:_
Why do I have to import you GPG key?
I sign each RPM in the repository, just as CentOS does for it’s packages. Its to ensure that if the repository was compromised, or if using a mirror, you know that I’d only sign legitemate packages (as long as you trust my updates).
On an initial installation of CentOS you would need to do the same for their repository.