On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > You can patch the Makefile, or just override it like: > > make LIBS='-lcrypto -lz' > > which builds for me on current Debian unstable. I don't think you can > actually fetch with that old build, but I used periodically check that > Git v1.0 can fetch happily from GitHub. I haven't in a while, so let me > know if you try it and it doesn't work. ;) I just tried this, and it does indeed work. I had to build v1.0.0 with make NO_OPENSSL=Nope I think the issue is that some old code embedded openssl's BIGNUM in a struct, and later versions of openssl stopped publicly defining the types. I was able to clone git://github.com/git/git with the result, though of course it chokes no the sha1collisiondetection submodule. You can still use "git log", though, and checkout older commits. -Peff