git quietly fails on https:// URL, https errors are never reported to user

On one of my FreeBSD systems I can't clone github through https URL. It only says "Cloning into 'MyProject'...", writes some files, but then deletes everything, without printing anything else at all. Exit code is 128.

Replacing https:// with git:// makes it work fine.

While debugging, I find that remove_junk() deletes all directories from under __cxa_finalize. Before this, exit(128) is called from recvline_fh ("Debug: Remote helper quit.) And this function in turn is called from under refs = transport_get_remote_refs(transport);

I think you need to make sure that any https errors (in this and other locations) are reported to the user, and git never quits on error without saying what the error is.

git-1.8.5.2

Yuri