Today in this tutorial will get to know how to install and configure Git on Ubuntu 20.04.

Nowadays, Git is the most famous version control system, as it supports distributed architecture and functionalities, we called it distributed version control system. It used by much more open source and commercial projects.

It has the functionalities to track the code changes, create branches, revert the project to previous stages, and collaborate with team members and your fellow developers.

Linus Torvalds was the first person who initiated the Git project and developed it; He is the person who creates the Linux Kernel also.

I have done all stuff on Ubuntu 20.04 what written in this article but hope it will also work on any Ubuntu System.

$ sudo apt-get update
or
$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt-get install git
Or
$ sudo apt install git

$ git –version

Output:
git version 2.11.0

Now, Git version 2.11.0 successfully installed in your system; Now you can move into the Git configuration tutorial to complete your setup.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install make libssl-dev libghc-zlib-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext unzip

After installation of all dependencies go to the Git project on GitHub and copy the package link that ends with .tar.gz:

I have got the latest version 2.22.0 at the time of writing this article as you can see in the above picture.

Now download the Git source file in the /usr/src directory. Generally, we kept all source files at this location, to do this first need to change the directory with the following command:

$ cd /usr/src/

Now you can use the wget command to download the Git source file with name git.tar.gz, as shown below:

$ sudo wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.22.0.tar.gz -O git.tar.gz

Once the file gets downloaded, the file needs to extract and get into the new directory.

$ sudo tar –xzf git.tar.gz
$ cd git-*

Now, before installation needs to compile the source files by using the following command:

$ sudo make prefix=/usr/local all

After completion of a successful compilation, you can install git using this command:

$ sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

When you get the prompt after successful completion of Git installation, you should add folder location into PATH variable and verify it by checking the version of installed Git, as shown below:

$ sudo export PATH=$PATH:/usr/src/git-2.22.0
$ git --version

Output:
git version 2.22.0

There is the only problem with source installation is when you want to upgrade on latest version again you need to repeat the installation process.

$ git config - -global user.name “Your UserName”
$ git config - -global user.email “Your email ID”

When the above operation for setting the email ID and username completed, you can verify by using the following command:

$ git config --list

Output:
user.name=satish
user.email=satish@linuxconcept.com

The configuration saved into the ~/.gitconfig file:

[user]
	name = satish
	email = satish@linuxconcept.com

If you want to make a change in this configuration, you can use the git config command or edit the ~/.gitconfig file manually.