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When trying to clone a repo with git on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server:

git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git

I receive an error with output:

fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

I noticed the error when trying to install packages with Vundle for vim. When I looked at the log i found that it was git that was causing the error. The problem is not present when separately running:

sudo git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git

... and running:

/usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git

... also worked fine. Since I run git through vim in this case I want it to work with just the git command.

I have tried to uninstall all the yum-installed git-related packages. I have also tried the approach in this Stackoverflow answer without any results. I have tried to install the latest git from source with this tutorial.

Maciej Jureczko
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Adam Lang
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  • Possible duplicate of ["Unable to find remote helper for 'https'" during git clone](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8329485/unable-to-find-remote-helper-for-https-during-git-clone) – Anand Varkey Philips Feb 23 '18 at 19:04

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After 2/3 of a work day trying to figure out what was wrong i manually removed every git-related file and directory i could find. Then i simply reinstalled git with

sudo yum install git

Now is everything working fine.

So try doing 

find /usr/ -name 'git*' -type d

to find the git-related directories, then remove all these directories. After this you do a new search and pipe that into less to handle the possible large output,

find /usr/ -name 'git*' | less

take note of the exec files and remove them. Mine where in /usr/local/bin. After this you reinstall git with yum like above.

Adam Lang
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