Update git in WSL2 Ubuntu

Check the current version of git

❯ git --version
git version 2.25.1

Update git to the latest version

Ubuntu by default doesn't offer the latest version of git. Add git-core PPA to get the latest version of git. And then install the latest version of the git.

❯ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
❯ sudo apt update
❯ sudo apt install git

Check the updated version of git

❯ git --version
git version 2.43.0

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