I found it is impossible to find lastest Git in yum repo. Fortunately, the Git source base has provided make rule to build RPM package. Note you have to build the rpm from the source code repo. Building rpm from source tarball is not supported. yum install curl-devel expat-devel xmlto asciidoc git clone https://github.com/git/git.git cd git make rpm Find the rpms in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 Install