Install git in non root user account

To Install and build git from source in a non-root user account download the source tarball from kernel.org .For the current example i have used git-2.29.2.tar.gz on RHEL 8 version.

Login as a non root user and follow the below steps.

• Create a directory under HOME

mkdir $HOME/git

• Copy the source code tarball and un-tar inside the above directory

  tar -xvf git-2.29.2.tar.gz
  cd $HOME/git/git-2.29.2/

Go through the INSTALL file for detailed options to build the souce code.

• Run install command from source directory

 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/git/git-2.29.2/
 make
 make install

The git and its associated binaries will be created in the source path . Check the git version

  ./git --version
  git version 2.29.2

• Update the PATH variable

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/git/git-2.29.2/