Proxy Git
Git works with git/ssh/http/https protocols and we need to use different ways to proxy them, which are summarized as below.
git
To proxy git running git protocol, we need
- A working socks proxy server, and
- BSD netcat as a helper utility. Please note that the so called traditional netcat doesn’t fit our need as there is not proxy support.
$ cat ~/bin/socks-gateway.sh
#!/bin/bash
METHOD="-X 5 -x proxy-prc.intel.com:1080"
/bin/nc $METHOD $*
$ export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=~/bin/socks-gateway.sh
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Cloning into 'linux'...
remote: Counting objects: 97264
....
http/https
Git utilize curl to fetch data over http/https, so we can simply point
the environment variable http_proxy or https_proxy to our proxy
server and then it is all set.
$ export http_proxy=http://proxy-prc.intel.com:911
$ git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Cloning into 'linux'...
remote: Counting objects: 45896
...
$ export https_proxy=http://proxy-prc.intel.com:911
$ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Cloning into 'linux'...
remote: Counting objects: 93630
...
Reference
Search the phrase core.gitProxy, http.proxy and https_proxy in
git-config(1) for more
detailed and information.