Git from Source on Centos/RHEL 7

$ sudo yum update

$ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
$ sudo yum install gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-CPAN perl-devel zlib-devel

$ wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.16.2.tar.gz

$ tar xf git-2.16.2.tar.gz

$ ./configure

$ make
$ make install

$ git --version