Git fatal: unable to find remote helper for https

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Hi,

I built my 2nd snap ever this week so I’m pretty new around here. I included the stage-package git in my snap but when I try to use git to fetch I receive the error fatal: unable to find remote helper for 'https' . Doing an strace on my system git I can see the binary git-remote-https being called. When I search for this binary under /snap it is not found so I think this is the issue.

My question is, why does the git stage-package for core20 differ from the git package found in focal? https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/git clearly shows that git-remote-https is part of the git package. I’m totally confused how to get HTTPS support in my snap. Please help!

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You need to tell Git where to find its stuff. Try setting GIT_EXEC_PATH et al.

E.g.

environment:
  GIT_EXEC_PATH: $SNAP/usr/lib/git-core
  GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR: $SNAP/usr/share/git-core/templates
  GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM: 1
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You are a genius! Setting the environment variables resolved the issue. Thanks for seeing through to the actual issue!

Title updated for anyone else who stumbles across this.

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