Can't clone a github repo on Linux via HTTPS

The answer was simple but not obvious:

Instead of:

git clone https://github.com/org/project.git

do:

git clone https://[email protected]/org/project.git

or (insecure)

git clone https://username:[email protected]/org/project.git

(Note that in the later case, your password will may be visible by other users on your machine by running ps u -u $you and will appear cleartext in your shell's history by default)

All 3 ways work on my Mac, but only the last 2 worked on the remote Linux box. (Thinking back on this, it's probably because I had a global git username set up on my Mac, whereas on the remote box I did not? That might have been the case, but the lack of prompt for a username tripped me up... )

Haven't seen this documented anywhere, so here it is.

You can manual disable ssl verfiy, and try again. :)

git config --global http.sslverify false

I met the same problem, the error message and OS info are as follows

OS info:

CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

Linux 192-168-30-213 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

error info:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/techops/pyenv/.git/ Password: error: while accessing https://[email protected]/pyenv/pyenv.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

git & curl version info

git info :git version 1.7.1

curl 7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.14.0.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2 Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap ldaps http file https ftps scp sftp Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

debugging

$ curl --verbose https://github.com

• About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
• Trying 13.229.188.59... connected
• Connected to github.com (13.229.188.59) port 443 (#0)
• Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
• CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none
• NSS error -12190

• Error in TLS handshake, trying SSLv3... GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.14.0.0 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2 Host: github.com Accept: /

• Connection died, retrying a fresh connect

• Closing connection #0
• Issue another request to this URL: 'https://github.com'
• About to connect() to github.com port 443 (#0)
• Trying 13.229.188.59... connected
• Connected to github.com (13.229.188.59) port 443 (#0)
• TLS disabled due to previous handshake failure
• CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt CApath: none
• NSS error -12286
• Closing connection #0
• SSL connect error curl: (35) SSL connect error

after upgrading curl , libcurl and nss , git clone works fine again, so here it is. the update command is as follows

sudo yum update -y nss curl libcurl

Make sure you have git 1.7.10 or later, it now prompts for user/password correctly. (You can download the latest version here)