Hi, bit of an update here.
I managed to get git to run without segfaulting.
I used these instructions
# cd /root
# apt-get install liblocale-msgfmt-perl gettext libcurl4-openssl-dev curl ntpdate unzip libexpat1-dev python
# wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v1.7.0.9.zip
# unzip v*
# cd git-*
# make -j8 prefix=/usr/local all
# make -j8 prefix=/usr/local install
from here http://wiki.ros.org/IntelGalileo/Debian
git clone works fine now.
edit: just to note the build will take a decent amount of time.