$ yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel \
openssl-devel zlib-devel
$ apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext \
libz-dev libssl-dev
http://git-scm.com/download
$ tar -zxf git-1.7.2.2.tar.gz
$ cd git-1.7.2.2
$ make prefix=/usr/local all
$ sudo make prefix=/usr/local install