Installing Git with non-root user account

Question

I\'ve already set up a Git repository on GitHub and committed a few changes from my Windows machine.

But tomorrow I\'ll have to work in this repository from a machin

Answer 1

A related answer is https://askubuntu.com/a/350.

I could get it work with the third method proposed:

apt-get source git
cd git_vXXX
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

I don't know why, but when I had tried to install from the source download from github instead, I had a lot of problems with missing dependencies