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Re: fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http'

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 12, 2010, 16:47 UTC
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:08:27AM -0400, Laflen, Brandon (GE, Research) wrote:
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> I recently compiled git on a red-hat linux system.  There were not compile
> errors.  But, when I try to use git to clone a repository, I receive the
> following error:
> 
> 	fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http'

Did you build git with http support? You need to have curl installed for it. If you built with the straight Makefile, you would have had to specify NO_CURL manually. If you used the "configure" script, though, it probably would have noticed that you didn't have curl installed and switched it off.

-Peff
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