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git-http-fetch vs. gitremote-helpers

Subject: git-http-fetch vs. gitremote-helpers

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Clara Engler· Mar 6, 2026, 16:05 UTC · lore

Hello, I am currently studying a bit of the git internals and I am having a harder time to understand the difference of git-http-fetch vs. git-remote-http(s).

To me, they both seem to be tools that directly or indirectly utilize libcurl to communicate with an HTTP(S) server, yet there must be an incentive on why there are two distinct binaries for that.

Thank You Clara

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