If you already have an previous version of Git installed, you can clone the latest version:
git clone https://github.com/git/git.git
cd git
Now, we can actually build git
make
By default Git will be installed onto ~/bin. Now we install it.
make install
If the folder doesn't exist, it will be created. The only thing we need to do now is make sure that ~/bin exists in your $PATH
echo $PATH
/home/ruben/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
If it doesn't, you can add it.
nano ~/.bashrc
Replace nano with whichever editor you want. At the end add:
export PATH=/home/<username>/bin:${PATH}
To exit nano
ctrl+o
ctrl+x
Note
If you want to change where Git is installed to, for example, maybe /home/ruben/opt, we can substitute the make step with:
make prefix=/home/ruben/opt
Obviously replacing ruben with your username. This should work for everyone:
make prefix=${HOME}/opt
For extra options, there's an INSTALL inside the Git folder.