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dementrock
dementrock

Reputation: 937

git error: cannot handle https

when I tried to use git clone https://xxx I got the following error
I don't handle protocol 'https'
Could anyone please help me?

full message:

dementrock@dementrock-A8Se:~$ git clone https://git.innostaa.com/innostaa.git

Cloning into innostaa...

fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

dementrock@dementrock-A8Se:~$ git --version

git version 1.7.4

Upvotes: 7

Views: 14351

Answers (5)

richardxx
richardxx

Reputation: 1

Just encountered this problem with git 1.7.9 on cygwin. Using the double quotes "" to wrap the https URL can solve my problem.

eg:

git clone "https://github.com/joyent/node.git"

Upvotes: 0

Karl
Karl

Reputation: 121

Fixed this problem for Git 1.7.9 on Windows. Seemed to happen with many GIT instantiations on Windows. Had to do with the url not being properly escaped in the command line.

Solution: Put the git repository URL in single quotes 'https://.......'

Upvotes: 12

Javid Dadashkarimi
Javid Dadashkarimi

Reputation: 89

I have same problem but the reason was in my configuration of my .git. I changed config file as follows:

.git/config

enter code here[remote "heroku"]
        url = [email protected]:rocky-bayou-4315.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/heroku/*

rocky-bayou-4315 is my heroku application that has been created by $ heroku create command.

Upvotes: 2

Rauter
Rauter

Reputation: 521

I had the same problem while trying to "fetch upstream". I solved it by getting the Git-read only address instead of the https.

details: I had a forked repository that needed updated from its original repo. Using github's help I added a remote upstream and tried to fetch it.

I then went to Git-hub and where I usually get the address of the the repo I clicked on the "Git-read only" button and got a new URL. I removed my past upstream and added another one with the new URL, which worked perfectly.

Upvotes: 0

Sylvain Defresne
Sylvain Defresne

Reputation: 44503

Version 0.99.9i of git probably does not support https protocol.

Try to install a more recent version of git. The easiest solution would be to install it via apt-get:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install git

After that check that the correct version is used:

$ hash -r
$ which git
/usr/bin/git

If the returned string is not /usr/bin/git, then you have another older version of git in your PATH that is masking the more recent one. Remove it.

If you do not want to install git via apt-get or if you do not have administrator privilege on your machine, you can built it from source. You can download them from git website, and compilation should be as simple as:

$ tar -xvfj git-1.7.4.2.tar.bz2
$ cd git-1.7.4.2
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/install
$ make && make install

After that, you'll have to add $HOME/install/bin to your PATH.

$ hash -r
$ PATH="$HOME/install/bin:${PATH}"
$ git --version
git version 1.7.4.2

Upvotes: 7

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