Re: Wrong error message when cloning from http gitlab (and everything still works anyway)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 22, 2024, 15:40 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh6bcva55.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <DB8P194MB0870877CBCB0576CCCB520C0E08F2@DB8P194MB0870.EURP194.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Marlon Regenhardt <marlon.r@hotmail.de> writes:

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> I'm currently setting up my new work PC (now Windows 11) and got a weird error message when cloning our repository:
>
>  - run git clone on an http GitLab instance, in my case I ran `git clone http://gitlab.company-local-domain.de/group/project LocalRepo-Name`
>    Note:
>     - http, not https
>     - GitLab
>  - Get the following error message:
>    fatal: Unencrypted HTTP is not supported for GitHub. Ensure the repository remote URL is using HTTPS.

A funny thing is that

    $ git grep "Unencrypted HTTP is not"

in the entire codebase of Git gives no hits. If this message is coming from some add-on Git-for-Windows ships with, a better place to raise this issue would be Git-for-Windows project's tracker page

  https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues

than here on this list.  I tried

  https://github.com/search?q=org%3Agit-for-windows%20%22Unencrypted%20HTTP%22&type=code

to see if they have that string, which found no hits, so there may be some other components, other than Git project ships and Git-for-windws project adds, that is in play.