This would be a game changer. Shared hosts such as Bluehost and GoDaddy don’t currently offer Git (last time I checked) and there’s no root privileges, so you can’t install it that way, but it does allow

<br /> $ make<br /> $ make install<br />

locally, so I found this idea pretty clever: Install it locally. If the host supports it later, just delete it from your path.

Haven’t tried it yet, but seems like a neat idea. For Git especially, as it’s pretty straight-forward, but I can see even on my own machine trying new software locally in this fashion before yup/apt-getting it.

Props: Installing GIT on Bluehost Shared Hosting