Git is installed and is in the path.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8.
>which git /usr/local/bin/git
Yet bower can\'t find
I bumped into this problem on a cPanel CentOS 6 linux machine. The solution for me was to symlink the cPanel git to /usr/local/bin/git
ln -s /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/git /usr/local/bin/git