using git with a proxy

Some of us are stuck behind a corporate firewall, but need to access all the great little github plugins through git!  So what do you do?

Create the following wrapper:

( ~/bin/proxy-wrapper ):

!/bin/sh

Put your own values

PROXY_IP=127.0.0.1
PROXY_PORT=1090

nc -x${PROXY_IP}:${PROXY_PORT} -X5 $*

and add this to your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_rc etc…

export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=~/bin/proxy-wrapper

I stole this solution from http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/07/17/git_behind_proxy/ Cheers, Dave