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

Question

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

Answer 1

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