This is a simple recipe about how to use git behind a proxy.
Right now I’m working behind a very restrictive firewall and I can’t get any port I need open, so I use a proxy socks for working with git,bzr,jabber and so on. I was looking for an easy way to use git with a proxy but I didn’t find easily the solution. After some researches a friend (Roberto) found the solution and we use it at work.
Let’s see it 😉
Just in case we don’t have it:
$ mkdir ~/bin
Now the interesting part, the wrapper for the proxy:
$ cat <<EOF>> ~/bin/proxy-wrapper #!/bin/sh # Put your own values PROXY_IP=10.0.0.80 PROXY_PORT=22000 nc -x${PROXY_IP}:${PROXY_PORT} -X5 $* EOF $ chmod +x ~/bin/proxy-wrapper
Note that you’ll need to have installed netcat (the openbsd’s one: netcat-openbsd) to be able to use the command nc with the option -x.
Then you’ll have to be sure you have setted the ~/bin directory on your PATH and then add the env variable GIT_PROXY_COMMAND. That variable will be used by git for doing pushes through git or ssh protocol:
$ cat <<EOF>> ~/.bashrc export PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=~/bin/proxy-wrapper EOF
Now you will be able to use git normally with no worries about the firewall, nat or whatever.
