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wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/git/git/tarball/v1.7.10.1
mv v1.7.10.1 git-git-1.7.10.1.tar.gz
tar -zxf git-git-1.7.10.1.tar.gz
cd git-git-9dfad1a/
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc install-html install-info

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