The most current stable version of Git for Ubuntu. For release candidates, go to https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/candidate . Adding this PPA to your system You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:git-core/ppa to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa sudo apt update