How do I pull from a Git repository through an HTTP proxy

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Note  while the use-case described is about using submodules within a project  the same applies to a normal git clone of a repository over HTTP   I have a project under Git control   I d like to add a submodule   git submodule add http   github com jscruggs metric fu git vendor plugins metric fu   But I get      got 1b0313f016d98e556396c91d08127c59722762d0 got 4c42d44a9221209293e5f3eb7e662a1571b09421 got b0d6414e3ca5c2fb4b95b7712c7edbf7d2becac7 error  Unable to find abc07fcf79aebed56497e3894c6c3c06046f913a under http   github com jscruggs metri    Cannot obtain needed commit abc07fcf79aebed56497e3894c6c3c06046f913a while processing commit ee576543b3a0820cc966cc10cc41e6ffb3415658  fatal  Fetch failed  Clone of  http   github com jscruggs metric fu git  into submodule path  vendor plugins metric fu    I have my HTTP PROXY set up   c  project gt  echo  HTTP PROXY  http   proxy mycompany 80   I even have a global Git setting for the http proxy   c  project gt  git config --get http proxy http   proxy mycompany 80   Has anybody gotten HTTP fetches to consistently work through a proxy   What s really strange is that a few project on GitHub work fine  awesome nested set for example   but others consistently fail  rails for example

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You could too edit  gitconfig file located in  userprofile  directory on Windows system  notepad  userprofile  gitconfig  or in   directory on Linux system  vi    gitconfig  and add a http section as below   Content of  gitconfig file     http          proxy   http   proxy mycompany 80

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On Windows  if you don t want to put your password in  gitconfig in the plain text  you can use   Cntml  http   cntlm sourceforge net     It authenticates you against normal or even Windows NTLM proxy and starts localhost-proxy without authentication   In order to get it run    Install Cntml Configure Cntml according to documentation to pass your proxy authentication Point git to your new localhost proxy    http      proxy   http   localhost 3128         change port as necessary

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This worked to me   git config --global http proxy proxy user proxy passwd proxy ip proxy port

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as  user2188765 has already pointed out  try replacing the git    protocol of the repository with http s      See also this answer

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Set Git credential helper to wincred   git config --global credential helper wincred   Make sure there is only 1 credential helper  git config -l   If there is more than 1 and it s not set to wincred remove it   git config --system --unset credential helper   Now set the proxy with no password   git config --global http proxy http    lt YOUR WIN LOGIN NAME gt  proxy 80   Check that all the settings that you added looks good      git config --global -l   Now you good to go

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What finally worked was setting the http proxy environment variable   I had set HTTP PROXY correctly  but git apparently likes the lower-case version better

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Just to post this as it is the first result on Google  this blog post I found solves the problem for me by updated the curl certificates   http   www simplicidade org notes archives 2011 06 github ssl ca errors html

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You can also set the HTTP proxy that Git uses in global configuration property http proxy   git config --global http proxy http   proxy mycompany 80   To authenticate with the proxy   git config --global http proxy http   mydomain  myusername mypassword myproxyserver 8080     Credit goes to  EugeneKulabuhov and  JaimeReynoso for the authentication format

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The above answers worked for me when my proxy doesn t need authentication  If you are using proxy which requires you to authenticate then you may try CCProxy  I have small tutorial on how to set it up here   http   blog praveenkumar co in 2012 09 proxy-free-windows-xp78-and-mobiles html  I was able to push  pull  create new repos  Everything worked just fine  Make sure you do a clean uninstall and reinstall of new version if you are facing issues with Git like I did

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I had the same problem  with a slightly different fix  REBUILDING GIT WITH HTTP SUPPORT  The git  protocol did not work through my corporate firewall   For example  this timed out   git clone git   github com miksago node-websocket-server git   curl github com works just fine  though  so I know my http proxy environment variable is correct    I tried using http  like below  but got an immediate error   git clone http   github com miksago node-websocket-server git  - gt  gt  gt   fatal  Unable to find remote helper for  http   lt  lt  lt -   I tried recompiling git like so      configure  --with-curl --with-expat   but still got the fatal error   Finally  after several frustrating hours  I read the configure file   and saw this         Define CURLDIR  foo bar if your curl header and library files are in         foo bar include and  foo bar lib directories    I remembered then  that I had not complied curl from source  and so went looking for the header files   Sure enough  they were not installed    That was the problem   Make did not complain about the missing header files   So  I did not realize that the --with-curl option did nothing  it is  in fact the default in my version of git       I did the following to fix it    Added the headers needed for make   yum install curl-devel  expat-devel-1 95 8-8 3 el5 5 3 i386  was already installed    Removed git from  usr local  as I want the new install to live there    I simply removed git  from  usr local share and  usr local libexec  Searched for the include dirs containing the curl and expat header files  and then  because I had read through configure  added these to the environment like so   export CURLDIR  usr include  export EXPATDIR  usr include  Ran configure with the following options  which  again  were described in the configure file itself  and were also the defaults but what the heck     configure  --with-curl --with-expat  And now http works with git through my corporate firewall   git clone http   github com miksago node-websocket-server git Cloning into  node-websocket-server       Couldn t find host github com in the  netrc file  using defaults   About to connect   to proxy proxy entp attws com port 8080     Trying 135 214 40 30      connected

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This isn t a problem with your proxy   It s a problem with github  or git    It fails for me on git-1 6 0 1 on linux as well   Bug is already reported  by you no less    Make sure to delete your pasties  they re already on google    Edit  Must ve been dreaming  i guess you can t delete them   Use Gist instead

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Use proxychains  proxychains git pull       update  proxychains is discontinued  use proxychains-ng instead

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For Windows  Goto --  C  Users user name gitconfig  Update gitconfig file with below details   http    https   proxy   https   your proxy your port    http   proxy   http   your proxy your port   How to check your proxy and port number   Internet Explorer -  Settings -  Internet Options -  Connections -  LAN Settings

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I find neither http proxy nor GIT PROXY COMMAND work for my authenticated http proxy  The proxy is not triggered in either way  But I find a way to work around this     Install corkscrew  or other alternatives you want  Create a authfile  The format for authfile is  user name password  and user name  password is your username and password to access your proxy    To create such a file  simply run command like this  echo  username password   gt     ssh authfile   Edit    ssh config  and make sure its permission is 644  chmod 644    ssh config   Take github com as an example  add the following lines to    ssh config   Host    github com         HostName        github com         ProxyCommand     usr local bin corkscrew  lt your proxy gt   lt proxy port gt   h  p  lt path to authfile gt          User            git   Now whenever you do anything with git github com  it will use the proxy automatically  You can easily do the same thing to Bitbucket as well    This is not so elegant as other approaches  but it works like a charm

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It looks like you re using a mingw compile of Git on windows  or possibly another one I haven t heard about    There are ways to debug this  I believe all of the http proxy work for git is done by curl  Set this environment variable before running git   GIT CURL VERBOSE 1   This should at least give you an idea of what is going on behind the scenes

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What finally worked was setting the http proxy environment variable   I had set HTTP PROXY correctly  but git apparently likes the lower-case version better

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This is an old question but if you are on Windows  consider setting HTTPS PROXY as well if you are retrieving via an https URL   Worked for me

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As this was answered by many but This is just for Winodws USER who is behind proxy with auth   Re-Installing first failed  Don t remove    Goto - gt    Windows   1  msysgit installer-tmp etc gitconfig     Under  http          proxy   http   user pass url port    Linux   1  msysgit installer-tmp setup-msysgit sh       export HTTP PROXY  http   USER PASS proxy abc com 8080    if you have any special char in user pass use url encode

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For me what it worked was   sudo apt-get install socat   Create a file inside your  BIN PATH gitproxy with      bin sh   proxy 192 168 192 1   proxyport 3128  exec socat STDIO PROXY   proxy  1  2 proxyport   proxyport   Dont forget to give it execution permissions  chmod a x gitproxy   Run following commands to setup environment   export PATH  BIN PATH  PATH git config --global core gitproxy gitproxy

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you can use   git config --add http proxy http   user password proxy host proxy port

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When your network team does ssl-inspection by rewriting certificates  then using a http url instead of a https one  combined with setting this var worked for me   git config --global http proxy http   proxy 8081

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The below method works for me   echo  export http proxy http   username password roxy host port    gt  gt     bash profile echo  export https proxy http   username password roxy host port   gt  gt     bash profile    Zsh note  Modify your    zshenv file instead of    bash profile  Ubuntu and Fedora note  Modify your    bashrc file instead of    bash profile

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http proxy is for http   github com       https proxy is for https   github com

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Setup proxy to git  command  git config --global http proxy http   user password domain port   example  git config --global http proxy http   clairton 123456 proxy clairtonluz com br 8080

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I got around the proxy using https    some proxies don t even check https   Microsoft Windows  Version 6 1 7601  Copyright  c  2009 Microsoft Corporation   All rights reserved   c  git meantest gt git clone http   github com linnovate mean git Cloning into  mean     fatal  unable to access  http   github com linnovate mean git    Failed connect to github com 80  No error  c  git meantest gt git clone https   github com linnovate mean git Cloning into  mean     remote  Reusing existing pack  2587  done  remote  Counting objects  27  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   24 24   done  rRemote  Total 2614  delta 3   reused 4  delta 0 eceiving objects   98   2562 26  Receiving objects  100   2614 2614   1 76 MiB   305 00 KiB s  done  Resolving deltas  100   1166 1166   done  Checking connectivity    done

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If you just want to use proxy on a specified repository  don t need on other repositories  The preferable way is the -c  --config  lt key value gt  option when you git clone a repository  e g     git clone https   chromium googlesource com chromium tools depot tools git --config  http proxy proxyHost proxyPort

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Worth to mention  Most examples on the net show examples like   git config --global http proxy proxy user proxy passwd proxy ip proxy port   So it seems  that  - if your proxy needs authentication - you must leave your company-password in the git-config  Which isn t really cool   But  if you just configure the user without password   git config --global http proxy proxy user proxy ip proxy port   Git seems  at least on my Windows-machine without credentials-helper  to recognize that and prompts for the proxy-password on repo-access

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There s some great answers on this already  However  I thought I would chip in as some proxy servers require you to authenticate with a user Id and password  Sometimes this can be on a domain   So  for example if your proxy server configuration is as follows   Server  myproxyserver Port  8080 Username  mydomain myusername Password  mypassword   Then  add to your  gitconfig file using the following command   git config --global http proxy http   mydomain  myusername mypassword myproxyserver 8080   Don t worry about https  As long as the specified proxy server supports http  and https  then one entry in the config file will suffice   You can then verify that the command added the entry to your  gitconfig file successfully by doing cat  gitconfig   At the end of the file you will see an entry as follows    http      proxy   http   mydomain  myusername mypassword myproxyserver 8080   That s it

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For me the git     just doesn t work through the proxy although the https    does    This caused some bit of headache because I was running scripts that all used git    so I couldn t just easily change them all    However I found this GEM  git config --global url  https   github com   insteadOf git   github com

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