Install Git in your home directory :: How to
If you every need to install Git on a server but don’t have root access, follow the below steps to install Git in your home directory
check that you can run gcc – if you get errors then you got to figure something else out
gcc --version
prep your home folder
mkdir ~/src cd ~/src
make the ~/opt directory – this is where we will install git into
mkdir ~/opt
Get the git source from google code 1.7.8.4 is the latest at the moment and untar
wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.8.4.tar.gz tar -xvzf git-1.7.8.4.tar.gz cd git-1.7.8.4
run ./configure and tell it to use ~/opt
./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt
now do the install
make install
check git is happy
~/opt/bin/git --version
If it prints out ‘git version 1.7.8.4’ then its all good to go – git is now installed in your home folder
