“Unable to find remote helper for 'https'”

Question

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

Answer 1

I had a lot of problems with this remote helper issue. I ensured that I had installed all the expat, curl etc. but finally resolved it by updating gcc after finding that version 4.4.4 was duff. Just did a yum update and recompiled with 4.4.6.

Answer 2

I had to add a couple of extra installs running CentOS release 5.10 (Final):

yum install openssl097a.x86_64 
yum install openssl-perl.x86_64 

Using git-1.8.5: ./configure make clean make make install

git clone https://github.com/michaelficarra/CoffeeScriptRedux.git
Cloning into 'CoffeeScriptRedux'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 4577, done.
remote: Counting objects: 24, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done.
remote: Total 4601 (delta 13), reused 11 (delta 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (4601/4601), 2.60 MiB | 126.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2654/2654), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Answer 3

This worked for me in Centos 6.6 to install git 2.3.1:

1. I didn't have curl-devel installed (checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... no). The key was to generate configure script

2. add rpmforge for docboox2x

3. install packages

   yum install openssl-devel zlib-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker svn tcl perl-Locale-Msgfmt gettext asciidoc xmlto docbook2x
   

4. make symlink

   ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi
   

5. build git

   # download latest relase from https://github.com/git/git/releases
   curl -O -J -L https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.13.0.tar.gz
   tar xf git-2.13.0.tar.gz
   cd git-2.13.0
   make configure
   ./configure --prefix=/usr
   make all doc
   make install install-doc install-html
   

Answer 4

In my case nothing was successful, after a while looking what was happening I found this on my config file. Not sure how it got there

% cat ~/.gitconfig 
[user]
    email = [e-mail]
    name = xxxxxx
[alias]
    g = grep -n -i --heading --break
[url "git+https://github.com/"]
    insteadOf = [e-mail]:
[url "git+https://"]
    insteadOf = git://

After removing the url properties everything was working fine again