Nov 19th, 2012
This article is no longer relevant!
Hostmonster now includes git support.
Git is now available on Hostmonster without doing all these steps below. If it's not, call in to their support and have them enable it (and ssh access too, while you're at it) :)
Original article
The version of git I put here, 2.26.1, might be old by the time you read this. :) See https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ for the latest versions.
mkdir git cd git wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.26.1.tar.gz tar -xzf git-2.26.1.tar.gz rm git-2.26.1.tar.gz cd git-2.26.1/ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/git make SHELL="/bin/bash" make SHELL="/bin/bash" install cd nano .bashrc # add line to .bashrc # export PATH=$HOME/git/bin/:$HOME/git/libexec/git-core/:$PATH # to check your install and reload bash source ~/.bashrc git --version