Thanks @epriestley. RHEL6 is still widely used, and even the latest update on that line carries only git 1.7.1. So if we need a new version of git, its installation becomes a messy business with either custom / rpmforge-extras repo or do compile/install. Would prefer if we can keep the 1.7.1 support around.

D13983 breaks on users running RHEL6. There git version is 1.7.1 and git 1.7.1 does not support --get-url option for ls-remote.

This breaks on users running in RHEL6 as git version there is 1.7.1 and that does not support --get-url option for ls-remote