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fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http'

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LRLaflen, Brandon (GE, Research) <laflenb@ge.com>
Date
May 12, 2010, 15:08 UTC
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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'

I am behind a firewall and cannot use the "git" protocol. I have exhaustively tried variations of the http_proxy environmental variable, without any visible difference. As far as I am aware, there is no other information to help me debug this problem. Can someone please help me?

Thank you!
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