git:// protocol blocked by company, how can I get around that?

Question

Attempting something like git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git will not work, it results in:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/robert/         


        

Answer 1

I was also having the same issue for a while. Then I tried changing the git config using the suggested command:

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

which unfortunately did not do the trick for me. I was still having the same problem!

What actually solved my problem at last is, I have reset the remote url of my repository again using the following command:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<my_user_name>/<my_repo_name>.git

which was previously like this:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:<my_user_name>/<my_repo_name>.git

After setting the remote url using https:// instead of git@git.com the problem was resolved for me.