git-openssl-shellscript
Shellscript to compile git with OpenSSL
compile-git-with-openssl.sh
There are at times when you need to use git with https instead of ssh (behind firewalls where ssh is not allowed but https is, for instance). There is a gnutls issue that prevents communication with some https behind such firewalls or unusual proxy configurations, etc. You will typically see an error such as this:
fatal: unable to access 'http://you@path.to/arbitrary/repository/git-openssl-shellscript.git': gnutls_handshake() failed: Illegal parameter
The only way to resolve this is by re-compiling git with openssl instead of gnutls.
This shellscript does that by downloading the source for git, switching it to openssl and and then building it. If you are using a managed version of git (eg: through ubuntu's package manager) you will have to re-run the script every time you recieve an updated version of git because the managed version will overwrite your compiled version.