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Basu

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No remote helper for git+https

I'm not sure if this is the right board to post this on, but the git package seems to not support git+https for repos. Trying to clone a repo such as

 git clone git+https://github.com/janestreet/core.git

gives me the error:

fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'git+https'

Some googling shows other distros instructing people having this issue to install libcurl-devel and recompile/reinstall git, but Arch doesn't seem to have an equivalent package.

Is there some package or version of git I should be using, or some additional package I need to install?

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Scimmia

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Re: No remote helper for git+https

why in the world would you try to use "git+https://" with git cli? Just use https.

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Re: No remote helper for git+https

Mod note: not a networking issue, moving to NC.

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Basu

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Re: No remote helper for git+https

why in the world would you try to use "git+https://" with git cli? Just use https.

It's through another tool that I'm using, the OPAM package manager from OCaml, if that's relevant.

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progandy

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Re: No remote helper for git+https

makepkg does support this format, but it is decoded internally. The "git+" prefix indicates to makepkg, that it should use git to access the url. The prefix is stripped and only the url starting with https:// is given to git.

No idea what OPAM is doing.
Edit: It seem it is doing the same since v1.2.1
https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Manual.html

Last edited by progandy (2018-09-05 20:04:48)

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Basu

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From: Cornell University

Registered: 2006-12-15

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Re: No remote helper for git+https

makepkg does support this format, but it is decoded internally. The "git+" prefix indicates to makepkg, that it should use git to access the url. The prefix is stripped and only the url starting with https:// is given to git.

No idea what OPAM is doing.
Edit: It seem it is doing the same since v1.2.1
https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Manual.html

Oh interesting. That would suggest that this is in fact a bug with OPAM which should only be passing the URL starting with "http://" to git. I'll go check with the OPAM folks.

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eschwartz

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Re: No remote helper for git+https

git itself has never, to my knowledge, supported git+http.

I do know, that it once supported git+ssh -- and ssh+git too -- but lots of people thought it was silly to begin with and should be dropped. In fact it was dropped, although still supported for compatibility reasons, but its documentation was removed and it is only mentioned in the git source code twice -- each time with a comment stating "this is deprecated, do not use".

https://github.com/git/git/commit/07c77 … 3f4d4d728c

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