Updating to the latest version of git on Ubuntu
If you're using git on Ubuntu, the version distributed via apt may not be the newest version of git (I use git to deploy changes on all of the sites I manage).
If you're using git on Ubuntu, the version distributed via apt may not be the newest version of git (I use git to deploy changes on all of the sites I manage). You can install the latest stable version of git provided by the maintainers as follows:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
