Mac Port Git issues breaking multiple ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 13, 2016, at 4:58 AM, John Patrick wrote:

> Any update on the git ssl certificate issues when trying to close repositories?
> 
> I'm aware it affects ports for git-flow and ansible.
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49539
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50467
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50469
> 
> I suspect it's affects more ports and people simply are not reporting the issue and probably switching to another mac package manager or manually installing it.
> 
> If you need information about git or certs on my machine, please let me know what info is needed.
> 
> I've tried with both /usr/bin/git and /opt/local/bin/git, as my regular user and as root and the 4 combinations all successfully clone the repo, but port install fails to clone.

Reviewing those three tickets, I can only reiterate that we have no idea why that problem occurs for a few users, and I have not seen the problem myself.