works great thank you

This actually doesn't work like seems... Bluehost has git installed by default in /usr/bin/git (as David Lichtenberg observed below). You can verify this by running which git from the command line.

The problem is that the version of git that Bluehost provides is pretty old (1.7.11.3). After following the steps above, running git --version will still report git version 1.7.11.3 meaning the latest version of git that you just downloaded isn't the one being used.

To remedy this you'll need change the export in your .bashrc (that you entered in step 4) to:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/src/git-master:$PATH"

Then just exit and log back in and you should be good to go. Running which git should return /[home]/[username]/.local/src/git-master/git.

Optionally, if you want to install git somewhere else—in .local/ for example—you can run the following commands (as documented on git's Getting Started page):

$ make prefix=~/.local/git all
$ make prefix=~/.local/git install

and then changing the export in your .bashrc:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/git/bin:$PATH"

Hope this helps.

To anyone reading this, I can confirm as of today that this is still necessary to access the new git install. Thanks Sean.

now 6 months later, confirming that this is STILL the case. and Sean's fix is still necessary

2 month after ^ still necessary, thanks Sean!

2 months after still the same case

Still the case, your solution worked! thanks.

Still need to.

I also think the "src" directory is bad practice and having binaries in it is misleading. "src" should be for code, not binaries. Instead, the article should make a "bin" directory.

After running the make/install, it seems that git does install to "~/bin", so the user should add that to the $PATH, not "/.local/...".

Great !

on 9/3/2014, at step 10 "$ make" I receive the error

GIT_VERSION = 2.1.0.GIT
* new build flags
CC credential-store.o
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/cc: Permission denied
make: *** [credential-store.o] Error 126

and can't proceed past that point.

i have a 127 error :/

How you solved this problem ? i am also getting the same.

Thanks for the posting this!
Why did we add .local/bin to our path? Following the instructions, I ended up installing git to /usr/bin/git
Was there some argument I was supposed to pass to make?

I am getting below error when i am trying to run make command

GIT_VERSION = 2.9.0-rc2
* new build flags
CC credential-store.o
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/cc: Permission denied
make: *** [credential-store.o] Error 126

Can anyone please help me.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you so much!!!

That actually worked - fantastic & huge help - thanks so much!

great...thanx

Awesome sir, Works perfect.

Wow. Awesome x2000. Worked perfectly. Thank you!

Nice post. I finally have git on my bluehost account. Thank you!

Super easy! Thanks for the post!

excellent

So helpful and easy. Thanks!

I've been stuck on this for the longest time. Thank you, sir!

Thank you so much. great tutorial!

Works great! Thanks so much! It's great to now have git setup for my website src!

Awesome post! Just works. Thanks a lot!

after this process , can i continue working with the git folder with an external gui system like gitkraken or github desktop?
or must i connect manually to ssh each time i need to commit?

thanks a lot!! I read BlueHost document: "VPS or Dedicated Hosting - Installing Git", and try to install git. It was not worked. Finally I read this topic, it's works great!! thanks!

I see a lot of notes about these steps not working, but they worked perfectly for me just now. Thanks!

Thanks so much!

Works on a godaddy hosting?

works on a godaddy shared hosting

Worked for me! I had no idea you could do this on shared hosting!!!