git error: cannot handle https

Question

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

which version of ubuntu are you running? which version of git? — Dave G, Mar 31 '11 at 13:26
Could you paste your error message ? And output of git --version ? — Sylvain Defresne, Mar 31 '11 at 15:07
Version 0.99.9i is _really_ old (2005 or so); it probably does not support https yet. You should consider upgrading to 1.7.something — Lars Noschinski, Mar 31 '11 at 15:19
same issue with `git version 1.7.6` ... any solutions? I guess the upgrade to newer version did not help. — stefanB, Mar 02 '12 at 00:17

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '13 at 22:16

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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://.......'

answered Mar 28 '13 at 22:16

Karl

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This also fixed it for me with Git 1.7.1 on linux. – Bala Clark Dec 18 '13 at 13:19
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Also, fixed it for me but I had to use double quotes. I was using from within Cygwin. – ksclarke Feb 09 '14 at 21:53
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Double quotes worked for me with `git version 2.6.4.windows.1` – astrojuanlu Jan 14 '16 at 06:59
Also for me with Windows 7 and Git 2.10.1.windows.1 only double quotes worked! – DSoldo Jan 04 '17 at 09:55
worked for me with Cygwin, also had to amend the url in `.git/config`. – altroware Nov 18 '17 at 20:25

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '11 at 15:32

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

Thanks, I have edited the PATH to update my git but the problem's still there; now the version is 1.7.4 and I got the error fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https' — dementrock, Apr 01 '11 at 04:35
@dementrock: You didn't by any chance build git with one prefix, `make install` it there, then move it somewhere else, did you? — Cascabel, Apr 01 '11 at 04:48
same issue with `git version 1.7.6` ... were you able to clone via https? Above you show git version not successful clone via https .... — stefanB, Mar 02 '12 at 00:19

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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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 = git@heroku.com: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.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

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answered Mar 02 '13 at 10:28

Javid Dadashkarimi

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 27 '13 at 08:36

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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"

answered Nov 27 '13 at 08:36

richardxx

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 26 '11 at 18:16

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.

git error: cannot handle https

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