'Unable to find remote helper'

2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15 · open the first message on its own page

'Unable to find remote helper'

From: Philip Boulton <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:58

Been beating my head against this for a while:

Here's the problem I have:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
Cloning into contrib/express...
fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http'
Clone of 'http://github.com/visionmedia/express.git' into submodule path
'contrib/express' failed


I have git version 1.7.3.1, built from source on FreeBSD 6.4
Prior to building I have curl and expat lib installed.

My git build commands are:
./configure
gmake clean && gmake all
gmake install

I've also tried the configure as follows:
./configure --with-curl=/usr/local --with-expat=/usr/local

in case it was looking elsewhere.  The behaviour I see in this case is
identical.

Philip B.

Re: 'Unable to find remote helper'

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:58

Hi Philip,

Philip Boulton wrote:
My git build commands are:
./configure
gmake clean && gmake all
gmake install
The "gmake clean" undoes the effect of "./configure".

Hope that helps.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d3dcfb1..c693652 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ dist-doc:
 ### Cleaning rules
 
 distclean: clean
-	$(RM) configure
+	$(RM) configure config.mak.autogen
 
 clean:
 	$(RM) *.o block-sha1/*.o ppc/*.o compat/*.o compat/*/*.o xdiff/*.o vcs-svn/*.o \
@@ -2240,7 +2240,7 @@ clean:
 	$(RM) -r $(dep_dirs)
 	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h $(ETAGS_TARGET) tags cscope*
 	$(RM) -r autom4te.cache
-	$(RM) config.log config.mak.autogen config.mak.append config.status config.cache
+	$(RM) config.log config.mak.append config.status config.cache
 	$(RM) -r $(GIT_TARNAME) .doc-tmp-dir
 	$(RM) $(GIT_TARNAME).tar.gz git-core_$(GIT_VERSION)-*.tar.gz
 	$(RM) $(htmldocs).tar.gz $(manpages).tar.gz
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