try this:
# rpm -q git if this won't return anything, try following
# yum clean all # yum install git also make run this to see what's included/excluded in your repos:
# grep -iE "^exclude|^include" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo:exclude=nagios-* # UPDATE: (aka another way)
# rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/git/git-1.7.11.3-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm #