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

To install git and dependencies from source the following maybe useful.

Replace with the location you are installing your non-root apps and consider checking for latest versions of source code.

wget https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.47.1.tar.gz
tar -xf curl-7.47.1.tar.gz
mkdir 
cd curl-7.47.1
./configure --prefix=
make
make install

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
tar -xf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
mkdir 
cd expat-2.1.0
./configure --prefix=
make
make install

wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.6.4.tar.gz
tar -xf v2.6.4
mkdir 
cd git-2.6.4
make configure
./configure --prefix=/git --with-curl=/curl --with-expat=/expat
make
make install