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

Gaius_1190 0
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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> echo %HTTP_PROXY%
http://proxy.mycompany:80

I even have a global Git setting for the http proxy:

c:\project> 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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29 Answers

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.

Gaius_11900

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.

sethbc_217220

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://<YOUR WIN LOGIN NAME>@proxy:80

Check that all the settings that you added looks good....

git config --global -l

Now you good to go!

user_24151560

This worked to me.

git config --global http.proxy proxy_user:proxy_passwd@proxy_ip:proxy_port
user_54842660

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.

user_49949310

The below method works for me:

echo 'export http_proxy=http://username:password@roxy_host:port/' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export https_proxy=http://username:password@roxy_host:port' >> ~/.bash_profile
  • Zsh note: Modify your ~/.zshenv file instead of ~/.bash_profile.
  • Ubuntu and Fedora note: Modify your ~/.bashrc file instead of ~/.bash_profile.
user_53981570

There is a way to set up a proxy for a specific URL, see the http.<url>.* section in the git config manual. For example, for https://github.com/ one can do

git config --global 'http.https://github.com/.proxy' http://proxy.mycompany:80
user_16306480

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?

sethbc_217220
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