On a Debian distribution (Mint, Ubuntu), the apt-get install command can be used to install Git. On a Red Hat distribution (CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat), the dnf install or yum install command can be used to install Git.

dnf install git

Then the git version command can be used to display the version of Git that has been installed.

~]$ git version
git version 1.8.3.1

 Create a repository using the git init command