How to install git on Linux (CentOs)

Following are the list of command you can execute on CentoOs 5 to install git

yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel;
cd /usr/local/src;
wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.7.4.tar.gz
tar xvzf git-1.7.7.4.tar.gz;
cd git-1.7.7.4;
autoconf;
./configure --with-curl=/usr/local$;
make;
make install;
ln -s /usr/local/src/git-1.7.7.4/git /usr/bin/git