"Unable to find remote helper for 'https'" during git clone

I am unable to clone HTTPS repositories. I can clone SSH repos fine, but not HTTPS repos. I cannot test the GIT protocol since I am behind a corporate firewall.

This is what I am trying to do:

$ git clone https://github.com/nvie/gitflow.git
Cloning into gitflow...
fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

I have so far tried the following (based on Google searches)

• Purging and installing Git through apt-get
• Installing build-deps for Git through apt-get
• Installing curl dev libraries
• Installing expat libraries
• Downloading Git source and building using:
  • ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curl --with-expat
  • Also tried pointing configure at curl binary (./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curl=/usr/bin/curl)

I have tried everything I can find on the internet with no luck. Can anyone help me?

Git version = 1.7.6.4

OS = Ubuntu 11.04

Solution 1:

It looks like not having (lib)curl-devel installed when you compile git can cause this.

If you install (lib)curl-devel, and then rebuild/install git, this should solve the problem:

$ yum install curl-devel
$ # cd to wherever the source for git is
$ cd /usr/local/src/git-1.7.9  
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

This worked for me on Centos 6.3.

If you don't have yum, you can download the source to curl-devel here:

• http://curl.se/dlwiz/?type=devel

If you are running Ubuntu instead:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev 

Solution 2:

If you are trying to clone then you could use the git transport

For example: git clone git://github.com/fog/fog.git

Vaio ~/Myworks/Hero $ git clone git://github.com/fog/fog.git

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/nthillaiarasu/Myworks/Hero/fog/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 41138, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13176/13176), done.
remote: Total 41138 (delta 27218), reused 40493 (delta 26708)
Receiving objects: 100% (41138/41138), 5.22 MiB | 58 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (27218/27218), done

Solution 3:

Just in case someone encounters this on a QNAP system or any other system with OPKG as package manager:

You need to install git-http along with git. Like:

opkg install git-http

Solution 4:

I used "git://" instead of "https://" and that solved the problem. My final command was:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/ceph/ceph.git