git clone https failed on 2.31.1-2, works on 2.31.1-1

[Marco Atzeri]

On 09.06.2021 19:22, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> Just did a fresh cygwin install base + git+nano+wget
> 
> Clone is not happy.
> 
> Is this an issue of: ooks like not having (lib)curl-devel installed when you compile git ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/13018777/58794  )
> 
> USERNAME@HOSTNAME1 /projects
> $ git clone https://HOSTNAME2/URL.git -b files-stsw-link009.zip
> Cloning into 'sharptown-files-stlink'...
> fatal: unable to find remote helper for 'https'
> 

It works for me

$ cygcheck -c git
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
git                  2.31.1-2       OK


$ git clone https://github.com/nco/nco.git
Cloning into 'nco'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 108577, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1195/1195), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (499/499), done.
remote: Total 108577 (delta 904), reused 956 (delta 677), pack-reused 107382
Receiving objects: 100% (108577/108577), 63.37 MiB | 8.94 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (89814/89814), done.


and curl was present during the build

$ cygcheck /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-fetch.exe
D:\cygwin64\usr\libexec\git-core\git-http-fetch.exe
   D:\cygwin64\bin\cygcurl-4.dll
..

$ cygcheck /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-push.exe
D:\cygwin64\usr\libexec\git-core\git-http-push.exe
   D:\cygwin64\bin\cygcurl-4.dll
...


may be you had an incomplete installation ?

Marco