Git: SSL Certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate.

Here’s a problem that I ran into a few months ago on a system while cloning a remote git repo.

 $ git clone https://github.com/sukhbinder/winsay.git
Cloning into 'winsay'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/sukhbinder/winsay.git/': SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

I am using Git on Windows. Installed the msysGit package. Test repository has a self-signed certificate at the server. Can access and use the repository using HTTP without problems. Moving to HTTPS gives the error:

SSL Certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate.

I have the self signed certificate installed in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities of my Windows 7 – client machine. I can browse to the HTTPS repository URL in Internet Explorer with no error messages.

Solution:

Open Git Bash and run the command if you want to completely disable SSL verification.

git config --global http.sslVerify false

Note: This solution opens you to attacks like man-in-the-middle attacks. Therefore, turn on verification again as soon as possible:

git config --global http.sslVerify true

Hope this helps others who get this or similar error. Do let me know.

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