http://adammonsen.com/post/665
I want a very stable desktop, so I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 “lucid lynx” LTS (long-term support). I also want features of the latest version of git. I ran these commands to grab the latest stable git release without futzing with any manual downloading or dpkg.
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
Thank you, Anders Kaseorg!