Getting Git to work with a proxy server - fails with “Request timed out”

Question

How do I get Git to use a proxy server?

I need to check out code from a Git server, but it shows \"Request timed out\" every time. How do I get around this?

Answer 1

If you have tsocks or proxychains installed and configured, you can

$ tsocks git clone 

or

$ proxychains git clone 

to make it shorter, I created a symbol link /usr/bin/p for proxychains, so I can use it like this

p git clone 

and I can use it to proxy any command,

p 

by the way, proxychains is not updated for a long time, you may wanna try proxychians-ng