Git 1.7.11 Debian fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

Question

I\'m using bitbucket along with git to manage a project. I\'ve experience no problems under windows development environment however i\'m having issues in debian squeeze. The pro

Answer 1

If you were to strace -f this you would see it actually is trying to find that helper, but in system path. To change that root you can use --exec-path or GIT_EXEC_PATH.

For example say I wget'd git-core from the archive, and dpkg -x into ~/opt, I would then

export GIT_EXEC_PATH=/home/ppetraki/opt/usr/lib/git-core

where,

find ~/ -name git-remote-https
/home/ppetraki/opt/usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-https

Use this to debug,

strace -f $FOO/usr/bin/git clone https://uri > trace.out 2>&1

Hope this helps.