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

Question

I'm having issue upgrading my npm packages. It uses git+https for cloning, but my git is failing with fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'git+https'

Weird thing is that a git clone https://github.com/foobar/somerepo.git worked fine.

I'm running git 2.4.5 (installed via Homebrew) and tried OSX native curl 7.37.1 and even Homebrews curl 7.43.0 , also running OSX 10.10.4

git seems fine, too:

git --exec-path /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.4.5/libexec/git-core

Any hint what could be wrong with my setup/in my case?

Answer 1

It turns out to be a bug in the current npm@2.12.1.

An issue has been submitted