The remote-helper bridges to access data stored in Mercurial and Bazaar are maintained outside the git.git tree in the repositories of their primary author: https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg (for Mercurial) https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr (for Bazaar) You can pick a directory on your $PATH and download them from these repositories, e.g.: $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg \ https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg/master/git-remote-hg $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr \ https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr/master/git-remote-bzr $ chmod +x $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr