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I recently received a notice from a cloud hosting provider that they will no longer be accepting Git connections from clients that use versions of libssh2 below 1.7.0. We have a couple of build tools that use Git, and I'm trying to figure out how I can check what version of this library they were compiled with. I've come up short with my previous searches.

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In most/all? (Linux) systems, git (as in the command line tool) isn't compiled against any SSH library. Instead, it uses an SSH client (like ssh from openssh-clients) for its transport (this usually means git is completely unrelated to libssh2).

However, there might be situations where this isn't the case. In that situation

  • check the dependencies of your tool
  • check with ldd /path/to/your/gittool to see what dynamic libraries the binary is linked against
  • If your tool is very strange and statically links libssh2, the most reliable way to identify this would be the source code
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    There are third party git libraries that use libssh2, but the original git itself does not. Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 15:17

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