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I have a git repository with submodules on github, when I try and set up the submodules locally by doing:

git submodule init
git submodule update

I get this error:

error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed while accessing https://github.com/wincent/Command-T.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed
Clone of 'https://github.com/wincent/Command-T.git' into submodule path 'dotfiles/vim/bundle/command-t' failed

I understand that this is a problem with the CA cert being out of date for Leopard, I have tried to rectify this by first installing a new version of curl with ssl support (now on version7.22), and then when that didn't work I updated my crt as per instructions such as: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2011/06/github_ssl_ca_errors.html

I still get the same error.

I've also tried adjusting the protocol in .gitmodules to git from https but this makes no difference either. Any ideas?

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I've also tried adjusting the protocol in .gitmodules to git from https but this makes no difference either. Any ideas?

Then you're still fetching via https://, rather than git://. You will need to update the URL in your .gitmodules as well as the URL listed in .git/config.

Regarding your certificate issues, I have a few questions:

  • What does which curl print out? What does which curl-config print out?
  • What does curl-config --ca print out?
  • Is that the file to which you added the new certificates?
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  • curl is at the usual: /usr/bin/curl
    – i0n
    Oct 28, 2011 at 13:54
  • the ca file is at: /usr/share/curl
    – i0n
    Oct 28, 2011 at 13:55
  • I'll try changing the urls in .git/config, hopefully that will let me get around this. Thanks!
    – i0n
    Oct 28, 2011 at 13:57

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