Uninstall git on linux, fedora

Question

I installed git using

sudo yum install git

I believe git is corrupted in some manner, when I try to clone a repository from github it asks for my bitbucket password and the clone isn't a clone. I would like to reinstall git, by first uninstalling git. However all the related answers are for ubuntu and windows.

With fedora how do I uninstall git?

Solution

You can use:

yum reinstall git

This will download the package again and uncompress it for installation. However, if that don't fix the issue, I recommend doing the following:

yum remove git
yum clean all
yum install git

Sometimes, bad copies are cached in the local filesystem and are reused even if reinstalled.