Debian and Ubuntu

To build from source, you need some dependencies installed:

1. Open Terminal and install the following dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev asciidoc xmlto docbook2x

2. Navigate to your preferred directory.
3. Clone the Git source code as follows:

$ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

4. Build Git as follows:

$ make all doc info prefix=/usr
$ sudo make install install-doc install-html install-info install-man prefix=/usr